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[v4,17/17] media: qcom: camss: Comment CSID dt_id field

Message ID 20230907164410.36651-18-bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org
State Superseded
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Series media: qcom: camss: Add parameter passing to remove several outstanding bugs | expand

Commit Message

Bryan O'Donoghue Sept. 7, 2023, 4:44 p.m. UTC
Digging into the documentation we find that the DT_ID bitfield is used to
map the six bit DT to a two bit ID code. This value is concatenated to the
VC bitfield to create a CID value. DT_ID is the two least significant bits
of CID and VC the most significant bits.

Originally we set dt_id = vc * 4 in and then subsequently set dt_id = vc.

commit 3c4ed72a16bc ("media: camss: sm8250: Virtual channels for CSID")
silently fixed the multiplication by four which would give a better
value for the generated CID without mentioning what was being done or why.

Next up I haplessly changed the value back to "dt_id = vc * 4" since there
didn't appear to be any logic behind it.

Hans asked what the change was for and I honestly couldn't remember the
provenance of it, so I dug in.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/edd4bf9b-0e1b-883c-1a4d-50f4102c3924@xs4all.nl/

Add a comment so the next hapless programmer doesn't make this same
mistake.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>
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 drivers/media/platform/qcom/camss/camss-csid-gen2.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/camss/camss-csid-gen2.c b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/camss/camss-csid-gen2.c
index 6ba2b10326444..cee50fc87e9de 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/qcom/camss/camss-csid-gen2.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/qcom/camss/camss-csid-gen2.c
@@ -352,6 +352,11 @@  static void __csid_configure_stream(struct csid_device *csid, u8 enable, u8 vc)
 		phy_sel = csid->phy.csiphy_id;
 
 	if (enable) {
+		/*
+		 * A value caled 'CID' gets generated internal to CAMSS logic
+		 * which is a concatenation of [vc:6 | dt_id:2] hence we reuse
+		 * the least significant two bits of the VC to 'stuff' the CID value.
+		 */
 		u8 dt_id = vc;
 
 		if (tg->enabled) {