linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] dmaengine: mv_xor: add support for a38x command in descriptor mode

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Date:	Tue, 12 May 2015 17:54:31 +0200
From:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...e-electrons.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
	Lior Amsalem <alior@...vell.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas@...e-electrons.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	dmaengine@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] dmaengine: mv_xor: add support for a38x command in
 descriptor mode

Dear Arnd Bergmann,

On Tue, 12 May 2015 17:49:08 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Using 
> 
> 	if (IS_ENABLED(__BIG_ENDIAN))
> 
> here would make it more readable by avoiding the #if. Alternatively,
> you could leave the XOR_DESCRIPTOR_SWAP flag disabled and just swap
> the descriptors manually like a lot of other drivers do. You have
> to swap the mmio accesses anywya.

Agreed on IS_ENABLED(). However, I don't understand the comment about
the need to swap mmio accesses? We're using readl_relaxed() /
writel_relaxed(), and they do the swapping already. Am I missing
something?

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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