linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] usb: xhci: Fix Set TR Dequeue Pointer cycle state for quirky xHCs

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Date:	Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:52:34 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'Mathias Nyman' <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>,
	Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
	Paul Zimmerman <Paul.Zimmerman@...opsys.com>
CC:	Maciej Puzio <mx34567@...il.com>,
	Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-usb@...r.kernel.org" <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] usb: xhci: Fix Set TR Dequeue Pointer cycle state for
 quirky xHCs

> It's starting to get a bit too complicated.
> xhci find_new_dequeue_state() now has four places where it can toggle the cycle bit
> in addition to the cycle toggle in find_trb_seg().
> 
> In the end we really just want to do it max once.
> 
> I'll see if I can simplify the whole cycle bit code somehow.

Have a look at the patches I submitted last year.
I remember simplifying a lot of that code.

	David