[Linux-stm32] [ v3 3/3] mtd: rawnand: stm32_fmc2: add manual mode

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Dec 7 09:16:44 UTC 2018


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:42 PM Christophe Kerello
<christophe.kerello at 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 at 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



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