[PATCH v2 3/3] hwrng: st: Improve FIFO size/depth description

Lee Jones lee.jones at linaro.org
Wed Oct 7 05:23:29 PDT 2015


The original representation of FIFO size in the driver coupled with the
ambiguity in the documentation meant that it was easy to confuse readers.
This lead to a false positive BUG-find and subsequently time wastage
debugging this phantom issue.

Hopefully this patch can prevent future readers from falling into the
same trap.

Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c
index 17f0a09..1d35363 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/st-rng.c
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@
 #define ST_RNG_STATUS_BAD_ALTERNANCE	BIT(1)
 #define ST_RNG_STATUS_FIFO_FULL		BIT(5)
 
-#define ST_RNG_FIFO_SIZE		8
 #define ST_RNG_SAMPLE_SIZE		2 /* 2 Byte (16bit) samples */
+#define ST_RNG_FIFO_DEPTH		4
+#define ST_RNG_FIFO_SIZE		(ST_RNG_FIFO_DEPTH * ST_RNG_SAMPLE_SIZE)
 
 /*
  * Samples are documented to be available every 0.667us, so in theory
-- 
1.9.1




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