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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: bbpetkov@yahoo.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] unify DMA_..BIT_MASK definitions
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:48:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EECC16.10501@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070917183346.GA9006@gollum.tnic>

Borislav Petkov wrote:
> That is more compact, I agree. However, the XXBIT_MASK macros have the
> better readability, imho. And also, doing 
>
> $grep -Prin 'DMA_..BIT_MASK' * | wc -l
>
> returns 383 on the 23-rc6 tree so removing them should be quite the logistical
> challenge for the kernel janitors :). What do the others think?
>   

Well, even defining the existing macros in terms of DMA_BIT_MASK would
be an improvement.  It's certainly not obvious at first glance that
0x00000007ffffffffULL is a correct 35-bit mask - it's something that the
compiler is perfectly happy to compute for us.

    J

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-17 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-17 17:51 [PATCH 0/2] unify DMA_..BIT_MASK definitions Borislav Petkov
2007-09-17 18:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-17 18:33   ` Borislav Petkov
2007-09-17 18:48     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

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