[RFC PATCH 01/11] dma: amba-pl08x: Use bitmap to pass variant specific quirks

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Jun 17 14:48:56 EDT 2013


On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 10:54:08PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> Instead of defining new bool field in vendor_data struct for each quirk,
> it is more reasonable to use a single flags field and make each quirk
> use single bits.

Please explain why this is better over the existing system, and why it is
not just churn for code modification's sake.



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