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Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips

From Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips
Date 2015-12-05 03:20 +0100
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On Sat, 5 Dec 2015, Julian Calaby wrote:

> Hi Finn,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Dec 2015, Julian Calaby wrote:
> >
> >> > -               if (overrides[current_override].board == BOARD_NCR53C400A) {
> >> > +               if (overrides[current_override].board == BOARD_NCR53C400A ||
> >> > +                   overrides[current_override].board == BOARD_DTC3181E) {
> >>
> >> These if statements are starting to get a bit long, would it make
> >> sense to replace them with a flag or equivalent?
> >
> > To what end? Shorter lines? As in,
> 
> Pretty much, each expression is quite long and they seem to be growing 
> fairly rapidly as you and Ondrej discover similar boards.

Each BOARD_* macro actually refers to a whole category of devices. No new 
boards, devices or categories of devices have been discovered.

Ondrej is enabling and/or fixing PDMA functionality for three existing 
device categories, for which the driver already has a nominally compatible 
PDMA implementation.

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[RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> - 2015-12-04 00:10 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 01:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> - 2015-12-04 09:40 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2015-12-05 02:40 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> - 2015-12-05 03:20 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2015-12-05 03:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> - 2015-12-04 10:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> - 2015-12-04 10:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH 76/71] ncr5380: Enable PDMA for DTC chips Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> - 2015-12-04 10:30 +0100

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