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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/6] dma/imx-sdma: check whether event_id0 < 32 when set event_mask
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:09:11PM +0800, Richard Zhao wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 09:16:17PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 02:37:08PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> > > I think Richard has made the issue quite clear here, the original
> >
> > Yes, he has made it clear, but only after I asked for more comments,
> > not with the empty commit message.
> >
> > > code does seem to have some problems even to me, who do not
> > > understand the very details of the SDMA:
> > >
> > > - sdmac->event_mask0 = 1 << sdmac->event_id0;
> > > - sdmac->event_mask1 = 1 << (sdmac->event_id0 - 32);
> > >
> > > 1. if sdmac->event_id0 >= 32, which will cause event_mask0 to be incorrect
> > > 2. if sdmac->event_id < 32, sdmac->event_mask1 will be incorrect
> > >
> > My testing tells this is not the case. The event_mask0 will be 0 in
> > case 1) and event_mask1 will be 0 in case 2), which is quite what we
> > expect. And I do not believe you will see any functionality bug with
> > the existing code.
> Please see my mail mentioned "we shoud not let it depends on gcc's
> behavior."

In this case, I would rather believe that the author is smart enough
to write the code intentionally based on his good understanding on
behavior of arm-gcc.

--
Regards,
Shawn


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