Re: [PATCH 02/16] mtd: nand: sunxi: fix clk rate calculation

[Boris Brezillon]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 15:58:03 +0100
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Boris,
> 
> On Mon,  7 Mar 2016 17:18:19 +0100, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > Unlike what is specified in the Allwinner datasheets, the NAND clock rate
> > is not equal to 2/T but 1/T. Fix the clock rate selection accordingly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c | 8 +-------
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c
> > index 4d01e65..ab66d8d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c
> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/sunxi_nand.c
> > @@ -1208,13 +1208,7 @@ static int sunxi_nand_chip_set_timings(struct sunxi_nand_chip *chip,
> >  	/* Convert min_clk_period from picoseconds to nanoseconds */
> >  	min_clk_period = DIV_ROUND_UP(min_clk_period, 1000);
> >  
> > -	/*
> > -	 * Convert min_clk_period into a clk frequency, then get the
> > -	 * appropriate rate for the NAND controller IP given this formula
> > -	 * (specified in the datasheet):
> > -	 * nand clk_rate = 2 * min_clk_rate
> > -	 */
> 
> When some HW works in a way that is *NOT* the one specified in the
> datasheet, I think you should rather add *more* comments about this
> aspect, rather than removing existing comments.

Fair enough (but you know how much I like documenting my code ;)). I'll
add a comment explaining why it differs from the datasheet
description :P.


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