Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda
Date: Tue Jan 23 2007 - 09:38:33 EST


On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:45:00PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:

> >> +static inline int dma_uni_dir(enum dma_data_direction dir)
> >> +{
> >> + return (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE) || (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) ||
> >> + (dir == DMA_NONE);
> >> +}
> >
> > While this doesn't look very useful. Why is "DMA_NONE" a uni-dir? I
> > suggest replacing this with an open coded (dir != DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL).
>
> The idea was to be resilient to invalid values. (dir != DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
> is fine of course, but I'd add a BUG_ON such as (dir < 0 || dir >
> DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)

If DMA_NONE isn't actually allowed here, you can use valid_dma_direction().

Cheers,
Muli
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