Rogier Wolff wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When you work on a driver, it has happened to me multiple times that
> I forget to acknowledge the interrupt to the hardware. This is when
> the "rate limit" converts a solid hang ("what the <beep> is going on?)
> into a console message that "your interrupt is triggering too much".
>
> This reduces development time on the driver, which I think is worth
> the 20 or so inactive lines-of-code that this requires in the source.
>
> Also proposed to be deleted the defines that I added to remind me
> of the possibility to report fifo overruns. Other drivers have this
> capability, but much smaller buffers. So it hasn't been neccesary
> yet. For now it remains unimplemented. But I would prefer to keep
> the notes of the possibility of this enhancement in the driver source
> instead of somewhere else.
Aaah, OK.
> Apparently, someone deleted the call to the word-wide memory test. So
> now the memory test seems dead code. I've had clients call for support
> where after debugging a while, the conclusion was: you may have a corruption
> problem between the CPU and the card. Enable memory test, and voila!
> Proof that there is something seriously wrong with the hardware setup!
Maybe we could have this as a CONFIG_SX_MEMTEST option?
> This debugging feature is uncommon enough that I recommend leaving it
> compile-time-disabled. The other debugging features are compile time
> enabled, run-time-disabled. This allows end-users to send in detailed
> debugging reports without having to recompile the driver, which usually
> costs them a lot of time.
I agree.
> The other "small" cleanups look ok.
Ok, thanks for notes,
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