On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:15:17AM +0000, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
I just wanted to get the idea of what you and others intended with the current register cache code, just as a matter of context. I like to
So ask that question; "I looked at this and I'm not really sure if it's supposed to work or not - thing X suggests yes, thing Y suggests no but looks like a bug so..." and so on.
In cases like this (although not I suspect this particular one) the answer is often that there was't any particular consideration for whatever unusual case you're looking at.
understand these things *before* I start digging around.
The important thing is to show that you're looking, especially in areas where you've done something unusual in your driver. "Looking at this briefly..." isn't a problem, just make it clear that that's what you've done.
Part of the reason I'm emphasising this is that stuff like this seems to cause you to get stuch relatively often.