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Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([216.228.127.129]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-748900cbf58sm1723692b3a.148.2025.06.13.07.52.29 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:52:28 -0400 From: Yury Norov To: Robin Murphy Cc: Nicolas Frattaroli , Rasmus Villemoes , Jaehoon Chung , Ulf Hansson , Heiko Stuebner , Shreeya Patel , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Sandy Huang , Andy Yan , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Simona Vetter , Vinod Koul , Kishon Vijay Abraham I , Nicolas Frattaroli , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Andrew Lunn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Maxime Coquelin , Alexandre Torgue , Shawn Lin , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Krzysztof =?utf-8?Q?Wilczy=C5=84ski?= , Manivannan Sadhasivam , Rob Herring , Bjorn Helgaas , Chanwoo Choi , MyungJoo Ham , Kyungmin Park , Qin Jian , Michael Turquette , Stephen Boyd , Nathan Chancellor , Nick Desaulniers , Bill Wendling , Justin Stitt , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-phy@lists.infradead.org, kernel@collabora.com, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] bitfield: introduce HWORD_UPDATE bitfield macros Message-ID: References: <20250612-byeword-update-v1-0-f4afb8f6313f@collabora.com> <20250612-byeword-update-v1-1-f4afb8f6313f@collabora.com> <1437fe89-341b-4b57-b1fa-a0395081e941@arm.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1437fe89-341b-4b57-b1fa-a0395081e941@arm.com> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 02:54:50PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote: > On 2025-06-12 7:56 pm, Nicolas Frattaroli wrote: > > Hardware of various vendors, but very notably Rockchip, often uses > > 32-bit registers where the upper 16-bit half of the register is a > > write-enable mask for the lower half. > > > > This type of hardware setup allows for more granular concurrent register > > write access. > > > > Over the years, many drivers have hand-rolled their own version of this > > macro, usually without any checks, often called something like > > HIWORD_UPDATE or FIELD_PREP_HIWORD, commonly with slightly different > > semantics between them. > > > > Clearly there is a demand for such a macro, and thus the demand should > > be satisfied in a common header file. > > > > Add two macros: HWORD_UPDATE, and HWORD_UPDATE_CONST. The latter is a > > version that can be used in initializers, like FIELD_PREP_CONST. The > > macro names are chosen to not clash with any potential other macros that > > drivers may already have implemented themselves, while retaining a > > familiar name. > > Nit: while from one angle it indeed looks similar, from another it's even > more opaque and less meaningful than what we have already. Personally I > cannot help but see "hword" as "halfword", so logically if we want 32+32-bit > or 8+8-bit variants in future those would be WORD_UPDATE() and > BYTE_UPDATE(), right? ;) > > It's also confounded by "update" not actually having any obvious meaning at > this level without all the implicit usage context. FWIW my suggestion would > be FIELD_PREP_WM_U16, such that the reader instantly sees "FIELD_PREP with > some additional semantics", even if they then need to glance at the > kerneldoc for clarification that WM stands for writemask (or maybe WE for > write-enable if people prefer). Plus it then leaves room to easily support > different sizes (and potentially even bonkers upside-down Ux_WM variants?!) > without any bother if we need to. I like the idea. Maybe even shorter: FIELD_PREP_WM16()?