[PATCH v9 1/3] MTD: at91: extract hw ecc initialization to one function and use relaxed read/write

Josh Wu josh.wu at atmel.com
Mon May 28 04:50:50 EDT 2012


On 5/27/2012 8:44 PM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 21:24 +0800, Josh Wu wrote:
>> use _relaxed read/write in most place. And use writel in operations of Control Register since it needs memory barrier.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hong Xu<hong.xu at atmel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Josh Wu<josh.wu at atmel.com>
> This should be split on 2 or even 3 parts:
>
> 1. You move definitions and things around.
> 2. You separate out the init stuff into a function
> 3. You start using _relaxed helpers.
>
> And you should provide better commit messages. You should explain why
> you do things - just cleanup? improvement? fix? preparation for
> something?

My goal here is to prepare for the PMECC support.
    Point 1 is consistent for the later PMECC patch.
    Point 2 is prepare for PMECC support.

So I think I will not add the _relaxed helpers for HW ECC operation in 
this patch series. Since that is out of the goal of this patch series.

>
> I think this patch is too big, commit message is poor, patch does more
> things than documented in the commit message.
>

Indeed the commit message is poor. I will fix it.

Best Regards,
Josh Wu



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