[alsa-devel] [PATCH v3 5/9] ASoC: fsl-ssi: Add offline_config flag

Markus Pargmann mpa at pengutronix.de
Fri Dec 20 11:08:53 CET 2013


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 01:16:43PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Markus Pargmann wrote:
> 
> > +	/*
> > +	 * imx51 and later SoCs have a slightly different IP that allows the
> > +	 * SSI configuration while the SSI unit is running.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * More important, it is necessary on those SoCs to configure the
> > +	 * sperate TX/RX DMA bits just before starting the stream
> > +	 * (fsl_ssi_trigger). The SDMA unit has to be configured before fsl_ssi
> > +	 * sends any DMA requests to the SDMA unit, otherwise it is not defined
> > +	 * how the SDMA unit handles the DMA request.
> > +	 *
> > +	 * SDMA units are present on devices starting at imx35 but the imx35
> > +	 * reference manual states that the DMA bits should not be changed
> > +	 * while the SSI unit is running (SSIEN). So we support the necessary
> > +	 * online configuration of fsl-ssi starting at imx51.
> > +	 */
> > +	if (hw_type != FSL_SSI_MX51)
> > +		ssi_private->offline_config = true;
> > +
> 
> This is really confusing.  I'd expect a switch statement here
> enumerating the pre-i.MX51 hardware types otherwise if there's a new
> variant added it'll do the wrong thing - the comment sounds like the
> opposite of the test.

Fixed.

Thanks,

Markus


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