[U-Boot] [PATCH] mx6: fsl_esdhc: Fix waiting for DMA operation completion

Eric Nelson eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com
Sat Apr 6 23:31:17 CEST 2013


Thanks for the review Andy.

On 04/05/2013 01:18 PM, Fleming Andy-AFLEMING wrote:
>
> On Apr 4, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On 04/04/2013 11:03 AM, Gabbasov, Andrew wrote:
>>> Hi Eric,
>>>
>>>> From: Eric Nelson [eric.nelson at boundarydevices.com] Sent:
>>>> Thursday, April 04, 2013 03:47 To: Gabbasov, Andrew Cc:
>>>> u-boot at lists.denx.de; Behme, Dirk - Bosch; Fabio Estevam
>>>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mx6: fsl_esdhc: Fix waiting for
>>>> DMA operation completion
>>>>
>>>
>>> So, do you think the latter (modified) loop condition
>>>
>>> } while (!(irqstat & IRQSTAT_TC) || !(irqstat & IRQSTAT_DINT) ||
>>> (esdhc_read32(&regs->prsstat) & PRSSTAT_DLA));
>>>
>>> will be correct?
>>>
>>
>> I think the right thing to do is eliminate the DLA test entirely,
>> so the loop condition can be simplified to something like this:
>>
>> #define TRANSFER_COMPLETE (IRQSTAT_TC|IRQSTAT_DINT)
>>
>> do { ... } while (TRANSFER_COMPLETE !=
>> (irqstat&TRANSFER_COMPLETE));
>
> That looks right to me. I have been known to mistakenly write loops
> that are supposed to wait for two conditions to only wait for one of
> those. Apparently I need remedial boolean logic lessons.
>
>
>>
>> If there is another part that needs to bail out on PRSSTAT_DLA, it
>> seems that the affected part should be the one with the #ifdef
>
> I don't think we need a special case. Just correct logic. :/
>

Cool. It's always hard to tell when IP like this is used for
multiple processors.

So many data sheets, so little time...

Regards,


Eric


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