[PATCH v4] dmaengine: add CSR SiRFprimaII DMAC driver
Vinod Koul
vinod.koul at intel.com
Thu Oct 27 04:38:09 EDT 2011
On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 09:33 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 01:48:55PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 20:08 -0700, Barry Song wrote:
> > > From: Rongjun Ying <Rongjun.Ying at csr.com>
> > >
> > > Cc: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh at linaro.org>
> > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Rongjun Ying <rongjun.ying at csr.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song at csr.com>
> > > ---
> > > -v4:
> > > add error handler in probe;
> > > free resource in remove;
> > > add necessary comments in source codes;
> > > fix the mismatch of license between file head and MODULE_LINCENSE;
> > > define MACRO to replace magic number for xlen/dma_width boundary.
> > Barry,
> >
> > You should _always_ run checkpatch before sending patches. It should
> > have 0 errors.
>
> Not true.
>
> > ERROR: trailing whitespace
> > #773: FILE: drivers/dma/sirf-dma.c:649:
> > +^I$
> >
> >
> > Also there are bunch of 80char warning, see if you can reduce/eliminate
> > them without sacrificing the code readability, and looking at them it
> > seems possible
>
> 80char warnings about printks should be ignored, because breaking kernel
> messages across lines prevents them from being greppable. This (breaking
> kernel messages, particularly error messages, across multiple lines) is a
> topic Linus has frequently complained about.
Sure, I wasn't complaining about printks, btw none of them were hit by
printks.
These were mostly write_l exceeding 80chars, thats why my suggestion to
see if they can be reduced/eliminated without sacrificing code
readability
--
~Vinod
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