linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/14] coresight: tmc: modifying naming convention

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <56F27220.4070006@arm.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2016 10:38:24 +0000
From:	"Suzuki K. Poulose" <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
To:	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] coresight: tmc: modifying naming convention

On 22/03/16 20:23, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> According to the TMC architectural state machine, the 'stopped'
> state is reached when bit 2 (TMCReady) of the TMC Status register
> turns to '1'.  The code is correct but the naming convention isn't.
>
> The 'Triggered' bit occupies position '1' of the TMC Status register
> and has nothing to do with the indication of the TMC entering the
> stopped state. As such renaming function "tmc_wait_for_triggered()"
> and changing the #define to reflect what the code is really doing.
>
> This patch has no effect other than clarifying the semantic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>

> -	tmc_wait_for_ready(drvdata);
> +	tmc_wait_for_tmcready(drvdata);

Thanks for cleaning this up. The code was indeed confusing.

Suzuki