[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 6/7] tegra: nand: Add Tegra NAND driver

[Scott Wood]

On 07/04/2012 02:46 AM, Jim Lin wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottwood at freescale.com] 
>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:17 AM
>> To: Simon Glass
>> Cc: U-Boot Mailing List; Tom Warren; Stephen Warren; Jim Lin; Stephen Warren
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] tegra: nand: Add Tegra NAND driver
>>
>> On 04/17/2012 01:50 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> +static void write_buf(struct mtd_info *mtd, const uint8_t *buf, int len)
>>> +{
>>> +	int i, j, l;
>>> +	struct nand_chip *chip = mtd->priv;
>>> +	struct nand_drv *info;
>>> +
>>> +	info = (struct nand_drv *)chip->priv;
>>> +
>>> +	for (i = 0; i < len / 4; i++) {
>>> +		l = ((int *)buf)[i];
>>
>> If you're assuming the buffer is 32-bit aligned, comment it.  Ideally
>> these assumptions should be stated in the interface itself...
> This doesn't mean that buf needs to be 32-bit aligned.
> It only says each write is 32-bit.

OK, didn't realize modern ARM could deal with unaligned accesses.

>> Should also comment that there's an endian dependency here.
> What do you mean? Could you explain more or have an example?

You load a value using host endianness, and store it using a little
endian accessor.  This would be fine if it represented a real 32-bit
integer, but it's really a sequence of bytes that should not be swapped.

It's not a big deal if you don't see the driver ever being used with a
big endian host, but a comment would be nice.

>>> +/**
>>> + * Board-specific NAND initialization
>>> + *
>>> + * @param nand	nand chip info structure
>>> + * @return 0, after initialized, -1 on error
>>> + */
>>> +int board_nand_init(struct nand_chip *nand)
>>
>> Please consider using CONFIG_SYS_NAND_SELF_INIT.
> So far I don't see the demand.

I'd like to see the old way go away eventually.

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-Scott