Re: [PATCH 1/3] ata: sata_dwc_460ex: use "dmas" DT property to find dma channel

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Jan 22 2016 - 05:04:24 EST


On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 20:07 +0000, MÃns RullgÃrd wrote:
> Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > > > > > One comment still regarding to lli types. We can avoid
> > > > > > warnings by
> > > > > > using (__force u32) in macros.
> > > > >
> > > > > But that won't give the benefits of having the types checked.
> > > >
> > > > You mean if we access the lli->field directly? I didn't quite
> > > > get what
> > > > use case you are keeping in mind.
> > >
> > > Yes, accessing any of those fields directly with my patch gives a
> > > sparse
> > > warning.ÂÂIt's situations like these those checks are intended
> > > for.
> > > Defeating them seems foolish to me.
> >
> > Otherwise it makes that struct looks ugly.
> > Why not union, though it still ugly, but less.
>
> What's so ugly about it?ÂÂIMO data should be declared as the type it
> actually is, and here we have fields that might have a different byte
> order from the host CPU.ÂÂThe __be32 and __le32 types were invented
> to
> make such situations clear and allow automatic (sparse)
> checking.ÂÂI'd
> say the price of one small typedef is well worth it.ÂÂThe actual code
> is
> not impacted since it must use the accessor macros anyhow.

Okay, let's move with current state.

I have few style minors and a question.

So, in type definitions can we use __dw32 instead of dw_u32?
InÂDWC_DEFAULT_CTLLO() can we do tab indentation for \ ?

Now the question: who do you prefer to submit the series (dw_dmac)? Me
or you?

In case you would like to do it (what I see in your dwc-sata branch
today):
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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