[Nouveau] [PATCH envytools] nvamemtiming: Handle target < initial case when iterating values

Martin Peres martin.peres at free.fr
Sun Aug 31 08:38:29 PDT 2014


On 31/08/2014 17:20, Christian Costa wrote:
> Le 31/08/2014 17:18, Christian Costa a écrit :
>> Le 31/08/2014 16:23, Martin Peres a écrit :
>>> On 31/08/2014 16:19, Christian Costa wrote:
>>>> Le 31/08/2014 16:11, Martin Peres a écrit :
>>>>> On 31/08/2014 16:01, Christian Costa wrote:
>>>>>> Le 31/08/2014 15:12, Martin Peres a écrit :
>>>>>>> On 31/08/2014 15:00, Christian Costa wrote:
>>>>>>>> Otherwise some values are not tested at all.
>>>>>>> I would rather have a warning than the program doing stuff 
>>>>>>> behind my back. This is a dev tool, dumb == good ;)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> But why didn't you call it Dumb mode rather that Deep mode. That 
>>>>>> way, I wouldn't have tried to use it and figure out what it does. ;p
>>>>>
>>>>> Target is supposed to be higher than initial! Initial == minimum 
>>>>> safe timing.
>>>>>
>>>>> You just reversed the order, try:
>>>>> sudo nvamemtiming pramin 0x6a22 5 0 -d 3
>>>>>
>>>> Ok. It's intended then. Thanks!
>>>
>>> I totally agree that this tool is a little confusing. If you have 
>>> suggestions on how to improve the usage doc, feel free to propose me 
>>> something better :)
>>>
>>> fprintf(stderr, "\t-d timing_entry_high: For each indexes, iterate 
>>> between the timing_entry and the timing_entry_high value (Deep 
>>> mode)\n");
>>>
>>> Speaking about this, this should be corrected to "For each index", 
>>> no plural after each. I'll fix it right now.
>>>
>> Ok. I will think about it.
>> Some comments in the source code can help also to know what it does 
>> and what it is used for. Same for README.
> Btw, the plural of index is indices.

Yeah, it was doubly wrong ;)


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