[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 02/10] armv7: add miscellaneous utility macros

Simon Glass
2011-06-01T02:13:50Z

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:54 AM, V, Aneesh <aneesh@ti.com> wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
>> Dear Aneesh V,
>>
>> In message <4DD23561.70105@ti.com> you wrote:
>>>
>>> In fact I had searched for a macro for similar needs as my
>>> set_bit_field() is addressing in Linux Kernel too but didn't find any.
>> ...
>>> I couldn't find any utility macros/functions for doing something like
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Please somebody correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>> I am not aware of such a functionality in the Linux kernel, either.
>>
>> A quick search did not even show any attempts to introduce such macros
>> to Linux. ?It appears they don't need such a feature ?
>
> Wolfgang, what's your final take on this. Can I continue to use the utility
> macros given that I don't have any 'standard' alternative. For register
> accesses I shall move to setclrbits*() macros that you had suggested.
> But for bit operations I do not have any alternatives.
>
> best regards,
> Aneesh
>

Hi Aneesh,

If it helps, I will email a cleaned up bitfield patch to the list
tomorrow. I hoping that it will get a warm reception :-)

Regards,
Simon