Re: [v2 1/5] lib/bitmap: add bitmap_{set,get}_value_unaligned()

Andy Shevchenko
2023-07-14T08:07:08Z

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 08:05:34PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 7:29 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > +Cc: William
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 02:57:01PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> > > The two new functions allow setting/getting values of length up to
> > > BITS_PER_LONG bits at arbitrary position in the bitmap.
> >
> > A couple of years (?) ago it was a series to achieve something like this with
> > better (?) code. Why not resurrect that one?
> >
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg2195426.html
>
> It looks more compact thanks to GENMASK, I can cook something based on
> the proposed bitmap_{set,get}_value (and change the names if you
> prefer the shorter ones).
> But I'd better avoid pulling in the rest of that series without a strong need.

William, what do you think on this?

I'm personally prefer William's version as not only it was published first
it was carefully designed and got a lot of review already. We just hadn't had
the user for it that time.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko