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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: YH Huang <yh.huang@mediatek.com>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	srv_heupstream@mediatek.com, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
	Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] pwm: add MediaTek display PWM driver support
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:21:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150629092145.GF5431@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1434622784.18278.39.camel@mtksdaap41>

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 06:19:44PM +0800, YH Huang wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 12:20 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:29:24PM +0800, YH Huang wrote:
[...]
> > > +#define DISP_PWM_CON_1		0x14
> > > +#define PWM_PERIOD_MASK		0xfff
> > > +#define PWM_PERIOD_MAX		0x00000fff
> > 
> > Same here. PWM_PERIOD_MAX isn't actually used anywhere, so perhaps just
> > drop it altogether. But see also below...
> > 
> > > +/* Shift log2(PWM_PERIOD_MAX + 1) as divisor */
> > > +#define PWM_PERIOD_BIT_SHIFT	12
> > 
> > I wasn't very clear about this in my earlier review, so let me try to
> > explain why I think this is confusing. You use this as a divisor, but
> > you encode it as a shift. It's also PWM_PERIOD_MAX + 1, so I think it
> > would make more sense to drop this, keep PWM_PERIOD_MAX as above and
> > then replace the
> > 
> > 	>> PWM_PERIOD_BIT_SHIFT
> > 	
> > below by
> > 
> > 	/ (PWM_PERIOD_MAX + 1)
> > 
> 
> Maybe I can change in this way:
> Remove this: #define PWM_PERIOD_MAX		0x00000fff
> Using ">> PWM_PERIOD_BIT_SHIFT" is faster than "/ (PWM_PERIOD_MAX + 1)"
> Is this right?

The compiler should be able to optimize the division to a shift, so both
will likely result in the same code. But I don't mind much either way as
long as we don't define two symbols for essentially the same value.

Thierry

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From: thierry.reding@gmail.com (Thierry Reding)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] pwm: add MediaTek display PWM driver support
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:21:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150629092145.GF5431@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1434622784.18278.39.camel@mtksdaap41>

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 06:19:44PM +0800, YH Huang wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 12:20 +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 09:29:24PM +0800, YH Huang wrote:
[...]
> > > +#define DISP_PWM_CON_1		0x14
> > > +#define PWM_PERIOD_MASK		0xfff
> > > +#define PWM_PERIOD_MAX		0x00000fff
> > 
> > Same here. PWM_PERIOD_MAX isn't actually used anywhere, so perhaps just
> > drop it altogether. But see also below...
> > 
> > > +/* Shift log2(PWM_PERIOD_MAX + 1) as divisor */
> > > +#define PWM_PERIOD_BIT_SHIFT	12
> > 
> > I wasn't very clear about this in my earlier review, so let me try to
> > explain why I think this is confusing. You use this as a divisor, but
> > you encode it as a shift. It's also PWM_PERIOD_MAX + 1, so I think it
> > would make more sense to drop this, keep PWM_PERIOD_MAX as above and
> > then replace the
> > 
> > 	>> PWM_PERIOD_BIT_SHIFT
> > 	
> > below by
> > 
> > 	/ (PWM_PERIOD_MAX + 1)
> > 
> 
> Maybe I can change in this way:
> Remove this: #define PWM_PERIOD_MAX		0x00000fff
> Using ">> PWM_PERIOD_BIT_SHIFT" is faster than "/ (PWM_PERIOD_MAX + 1)"
> Is this right?

The compiler should be able to optimize the division to a shift, so both
will likely result in the same code. But I don't mind much either way as
long as we don't define two symbols for essentially the same value.

Thierry
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-29  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-21 13:29 [PATCH v2 0/2] Add MediaTek display PWM driver YH Huang
2015-05-21 13:29 ` YH Huang
2015-05-21 13:29 ` YH Huang
2015-05-21 13:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: pwm: add MediaTek display PWM bindings YH Huang
2015-05-21 13:29   ` YH Huang
2015-05-21 13:29   ` YH Huang
2015-06-12 10:23   ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-12 10:23     ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-18  9:00     ` YH Huang
2015-06-18  9:00       ` YH Huang
2015-06-18  9:00       ` YH Huang
2015-05-21 13:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] pwm: add MediaTek display PWM driver support YH Huang
2015-05-21 13:29   ` YH Huang
2015-05-21 13:29   ` YH Huang
2015-06-12 10:20   ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-12 10:20     ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-18 10:19     ` YH Huang
2015-06-18 10:19       ` YH Huang
2015-06-18 10:19       ` YH Huang
2015-06-18 13:58       ` Yingjoe Chen
2015-06-18 13:58         ` Yingjoe Chen
2015-06-18 13:58         ` Yingjoe Chen
2015-06-29  9:27         ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-29  9:27           ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-29  9:21       ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2015-06-29  9:21         ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-12 10:25   ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-12 10:25     ` Thierry Reding
2015-06-18  9:02     ` YH Huang
2015-06-18  9:02       ` YH Huang
2015-06-18  9:02       ` YH Huang
2015-05-25  2:14 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Add MediaTek display PWM driver Yingjoe Chen
2015-05-25  2:14   ` Yingjoe Chen
2015-05-25  2:14   ` Yingjoe Chen
2015-06-05  6:15   ` YH Huang
2015-06-05  6:15     ` YH Huang
2015-06-05  8:39     ` Matthias Brugger
2015-06-05  8:39       ` Matthias Brugger
2015-06-05 10:45       ` YH Huang
2015-06-05 10:45         ` YH Huang

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