Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips

From: Julian Calaby
Date: Fri Dec 04 2015 - 21:38:28 EST


Hi Finn,

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Dec 2015, Julian Calaby wrote:
>
>> Hi Finn,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, Julian Calaby wrote:
>> >
>> >> > - if (overrides[current_override].board == BOARD_NCR53C400A) {
>> >> > + if (overrides[current_override].board == BOARD_NCR53C400A ||
>> >> > + overrides[current_override].board == BOARD_DTC3181E) {
>> >>
>> >> These if statements are starting to get a bit long, would it make
>> >> sense to replace them with a flag or equivalent?
>> >
>> > To what end? Shorter lines? As in,
>>
>> Pretty much, each expression is quite long and they seem to be growing
>> fairly rapidly as you and Ondrej discover similar boards.
>
> Each BOARD_* macro actually refers to a whole category of devices. No new
> boards, devices or categories of devices have been discovered.
>
> Ondrej is enabling and/or fixing PDMA functionality for three existing
> device categories, for which the driver already has a nominally compatible
> PDMA implementation.

I meant discovering boards which are similar.

Either way, I'm not sure it matters that much.

Thanks,

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