From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01F4C43381 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 20:32:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8635120989 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 20:32:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="VwZdQ9u4" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728882AbfCXUcI (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:32:08 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-f65.google.com ([209.85.221.65]:39866 "EHLO mail-wr1-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726811AbfCXUcI (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:32:08 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-f65.google.com with SMTP id j9so7803192wrn.6 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 13:32:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=B/2Nx+xdzocI6iQ6DOaAvz4t8WalBIF43kZEK6EFRuE=; b=VwZdQ9u4f+65+F+/7EuslrbX+pz2YxT0KFma25+CeZBCZ/G18TeQnQJo8orMff/xjQ vcjfFwuZjxfGE7RXYe1ptkqBee11LDc8XJ/5VHIZCVW6tadJKb8+KRx9ETvD/eAmk20S fdEcayAuZtW7Fb0hQYJlqnD2DrZJZ2LWeLjTBregV5H96pTOgLFgipuH7KPes2MN9qTE 2QN5xnh5XC+NkfJuv53S3SaQPU/1htjrbXsRaCCJpor/QrbYKgPLAlfEoX85rPYjL2mU R5vRBJdT4b4KhJe7ZdUd9AueF6Q64f5cOfumOwdsm5cZQBek+5Vpi4ktYFp1VO+8sdhl ymaA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=B/2Nx+xdzocI6iQ6DOaAvz4t8WalBIF43kZEK6EFRuE=; b=ECHiakWZqyGhKxGn61uDBDn7ViS85n7QGaSLv2gecWG0zToqjRAHtCVWzElRs22M26 L/nmSoF4T9iWhJxlmAFNJ2ajXh2eKJ75cnBOAs9t9v32hUASm1QaJ1GHaxSKCfVqGItF HFy3t6yu1Mfw/w2xeEaUWnauZfqLHsuLu3IgI2d22dkRx6bqyRvStcQBDaHYKm64MsN6 rqmT3GhNn82+uoWPFSNcmAJiQWWj3IyzMcCsh8B1UJy6Zdx6w0RM7paVE5utJ1xLjBhW tvvXxCAM9Ao6+T8mDm56XNPLSva9stZ9U7RIx2weGwhAK9YkUdXf/qIjapll1pyjU2v0 mKZw== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXSqvNnjno7MN0xGqDqckZ+YwLC8mVs1HiU7TTdcQ2LB4dFZdRf zAIFCQt9pLBqweOzAeo9jBQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyA6+F67UTtue8Z6G6O1ZUp6X+1YnauBYKaDi0jBv2B1njg1Py7sZoOEn87bhG/9cVoCwrCjw== X-Received: by 2002:adf:dd4a:: with SMTP id u10mr14222738wrm.322.1553459525792; Sun, 24 Mar 2019 13:32:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([188.26.228.227]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m17sm8604621wrx.3.2019.03.24.13.32.04 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 24 Mar 2019 13:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 01/13] lib: Add support for generic packing operations To: Richard Cochran Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, f.fainelli@gmail.com, andrew@lunn.ch, vivien.didelot@gmail.com, linus.walleij@linaro.org References: <20190324032346.32394-1-olteanv@gmail.com> <20190324032346.32394-2-olteanv@gmail.com> <20190324190226.jr5cqxqflkfn4uvl@localhost> From: Vladimir Oltean Message-ID: <3cd07aa5-02b0-c539-83f9-215d631dc1da@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 22:32:03 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190324190226.jr5cqxqflkfn4uvl@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org On 3/24/19 9:02 PM, Richard Cochran wrote: > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 05:23:34AM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote: >> This provides an unified API for accessing register bit fields >> regardless of memory layout. The basic unit of data for these API >> functions is the u64. The process of transforming an u64 from native CPU >> encoding into the peripheral's encoding is called 'pack', and >> transforming it from peripheral to native CPU encoding is 'unpack'. >> >> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean >> --- >> Documentation/packing.txt | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> MAINTAINERS | 8 ++ >> include/linux/packing.h | 49 +++++++++ >> lib/Makefile | 2 +- >> lib/packing.c | 211 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > For this kind of generic infrastructure, you really should CC the lkml > to get proper review. > > Thanks, > Richard > Hi Richard, I didn't want to pollute LKML with the entire driver patchset from the get-go, just receive some initial feedback from netdev first (hence the RFC). How should I proceed? Should I resend just this patch to LKML, or a v2 patchset with LKML copied on the lib patch? Thanks, -Vladimir