From: Christophe Kerello <christophe.kerello@st.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: "Boris Brezillon" <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>,
"Miquèl Raynal" <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
"Richard Weinberger" <richard@nod.at>,
"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"Brian Norris" <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
"Mark Vasut" <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [ v3 3/3] mtd: rawnand: stm32_fmc2: add manual mode
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 11:56:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed956235-d439-411e-a959-edb356d9fb9f@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdZuR-Qud1E6sm-qWx1knWx+1_J1rxT+COh76z7BxYjz-Q@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Linus,
It is correct.
I will replace "manual mode" by "polling mode" in next patchset.
Regards,
Christophe Kerello.
On 12/7/18 10:16 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:42 PM Christophe Kerello
> <christophe.kerello@st.com> wrote:
>
>> This patch adds the manual mode, a basic mode that do not need
>> any DMA channels. This mode is also useful for debug purpose.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Christophe Kerello <christophe.kerello@st.com>
>
> This is a bit of drive-by comment, but "manual mode" usually
> means there is a person "a man" pulling levers and pushing
> buttons. There is nothing manual inside a computer system.
>
> I think the more appropriate term is "polling mode" which is
> what we call code that read registers directly waiting for status
> flags rather than relying on IRQs or DMA flows.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-07 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-29 16:41 [ v3 0/3] mtd: rawnand: add STM32 FMC2 NAND flash controller driver Christophe Kerello
2018-11-29 16:41 ` [ v3 1/3] dt-bindings: mtd: stm32_fmc2: add STM32 FMC2 NAND controller documentation Christophe Kerello
2018-12-07 23:42 ` Rob Herring
2018-11-29 16:41 ` [ v3 2/3] mtd: rawnand: stm32_fmc2: add STM32 FMC2 NAND flash controller driver Christophe Kerello
2018-12-07 9:06 ` Linus Walleij
2018-12-07 10:21 ` [Linux-stm32] " Benjamin GAIGNARD
2018-12-07 12:47 ` Linus Walleij
2018-12-07 16:53 ` Christophe Kerello
2018-12-13 10:45 ` Linus Walleij
2018-12-07 10:18 ` Miquel Raynal
2018-12-07 10:53 ` Christophe Kerello
2018-11-29 16:41 ` [ v3 3/3] mtd: rawnand: stm32_fmc2: add manual mode Christophe Kerello
2018-12-07 9:16 ` Linus Walleij
2018-12-07 10:56 ` Christophe Kerello [this message]
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