Re: [PATCH v3 03/11] dmaengine: dw: set polarity of handshake interface

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri May 06 2016 - 06:40:58 EST


On Thu, 2016-05-05 at 18:54 +0100, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 16:48 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >
> > +ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂboolÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂpolarity;
> So this variable is not very intuitively named.

There is a help above. This is a property of the Synopsys DesignWare DMA
engine. Anyone familiar with datasheet easily understands this.

>
> You end up setting somepointer->polarity = true; in a later patch.Â
>
> Since you're respining a V4 I'd suggest a name that describes a little
> bit better than polarity. Setting polarity = true is a little bit
> liked
> being asked "you you like ice-cream or apple pie" and then saying "yes
> please".

It's about handshake interface polarity, so, what about hs_polarity?

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy