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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>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
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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
> 

      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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