Re: [PATCH 3/8] staging: et131x: Use for loop to initialise contiguous registers to zero
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2014-08-30 20:32:19
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:17:53PM +0100, Mark Einon wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Replace a long list of contiguous writel() calls with a for loop iterating over the same values. Signed-off-by: Mark Einon <mark.einon@gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c | 27 +++------------------------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)diff --git a/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c b/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c index fffe763..44cc684 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c +++ b/drivers/staging/et131x/et131x.c@@ -1138,6 +1138,7 @@ static void et1310_config_rxmac_regs(struct et131x_adapter *adapter) u32 sa_lo; u32 sa_hi = 0; u32 pf_ctrl = 0; + u32 *wolw; /* Disable the MAC while it is being configured (also disable WOL) */ writel(0x8, &rxmac->ctrl);@@ -1151,30 +1152,8 @@ static void et1310_config_rxmac_regs(struct et131x_adapter *adapter) * its default Values of 0x00000000 because there are not WOL masks * as of this time. */ - writel(0, &rxmac->mask0_word0); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask0_word1); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask0_word2); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask0_word3); - - writel(0, &rxmac->mask1_word0); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask1_word1); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask1_word2); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask1_word3); - - writel(0, &rxmac->mask2_word0); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask2_word1); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask2_word2); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask2_word3); - - writel(0, &rxmac->mask3_word0); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask3_word1); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask3_word2); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask3_word3); - - writel(0, &rxmac->mask4_word0); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask4_word1); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask4_word2); - writel(0, &rxmac->mask4_word3); + for (wolw = &rxmac->mask0_word0; wolw <= &rxmac->mask4_word3; wolw++) + writel(0, wolw);
You are now only writing to all locations 1 time, instead of 4 times, like before, are you sure that is ok? Hardware is flaky, sometimes it wants to be written to multiple times... greg k-h