[PATCH 04/18] dmaengine/amba-pl08x: Remove redundant comment and rewrite original

viresh kumar viresh.linux at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 11:47:06 EDT 2011


On 7/29/11, Koul, Vinod <vinod.koul at intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 16:19 +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>>  /*
>> - * Autoselect a master bus to use for the transfer this prefers the
>> - * destination bus if both available if fixed address on one bus the
>> - * other will be chosen
>> + * Autoselect a master bus to use for the transfer
>> + * - prefers the destination bus if both available
>> + * - if fixed address on one bus the other will be chosen
> Not sure I get it, English is not my first language :)

Nor mine either. :)

Will give some more explanation.

But before that i wanted to know the exact purpose of this
master-slave concept here.
Probably it is for choosing the victim for reduction of width, in case
src and dest addresses
are misaligned to each other.
@Russell and Linus: Is this correct?

--
viresh



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