Re: [PATCH 03/20] staging: comedi: drivers: rename PLX PCI 9080 register offsets

[Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>]

On 20/05/16 17:21, Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Friday, May 20, 2016 6:49 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> Rename the macros in "plx9080.h" that define the offsets of registers,
>> following the pattern `PLX_REG_<NAME>`, where `<NAME>` is the register
>> name from the PLX PCI 9080 Data Book.
>>
>> Add defines for the "Mailbox" registers, and add parameterized macros
>> for the mailbox registers and the DMA control registers.  Make use of
>> the parameterized versions of the macros where it seems appropriate.
>>
>> The registers for supporting the I2O (Intelligent Input/Output) feature
>> are largely left undefined, just defining enough to allow the I2O
>> feature to be disabled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
>
> Ian,
>
> Just an comment on your renaming.
>
> You also renamed the registers in the daqbook2000 driver in the
> <driver>_REG_<name> format. Personally I prefer the format to be
> <driver>_<name>_REG. That way a grep for <driver>_<name> will
> return both the register and bit uses.
>
> Currently the <driver>_REG_<name> form is not as common in comedi.
> Looks like it's only used in amcc_35933.h and will be in daqboard2000.c.
>
> The <driver>_<name>_REG form is used a lot.
>
> Not a big deal, just a comment.

It makes it easier to distinguish the register offsets from the register 
values, imho.

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