Re: [PATCH 2/4] dmaengine: dw_dmac: move to generic DMA binding

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sat Feb 16 2013 - 08:43:59 EST


On Saturday 16 February 2013, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:07:39AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 February 2013, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > > On 15 February 2013 23:51, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > +static bool dw_dma_generic_filter(struct dma_chan *chan, void *param)
> > > > {
> > >
> > > > + dws->cfg_hi = 0xffffffff;
> > > > + dws->cfg_lo = 0xffffffff;
> > >
> > > s/0xffffffff/-1 ?
> >
> > It's an 'unsigned int'. While -1 would work here, I always find it a little
> > odd to rely on that feature of the C language.
>
> However, relying on an 'int' being 32-bits is also rather odd, and
> probably much more dubious too. If you want to set all bits in an
> int, the portable way to do that is ~0.

Right, I can do that, too. All I really need here though is to make sure
I use the same value in this place and when comparing it in dwc_initialize,
and it needs to be something that cannot be a valid register setting.

Thanks,

Arnd
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