[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/5] Introduce BIT and GENMASK

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 05:02:37 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 01:33:39PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 01:25:30 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> > > On 10 May 2015 at 20:52, Jagan Teki <jteki@openedev.com> wrote:
> > > > I have sent one v1 for BIT macro change for entire u-boot,
> > > > but this time I'm just introduce by changing this with spi/sf
> > > > code, will send more in changes in future.
> > > > 
> > > > Along with BIT and also introduces GENMASK with spi/sf code.
> > > > 
> > > > Changes for v2:
> > > >         - break the BIT macro patch only for spi/sf code.
> > > > 
> > > > thanks!
> > > > Jagan.
> > > > 
> > > > Jagan Teki (5):
> > > >   spi/sf: Add BIT macro in linux/bitops.h
> > > >   spi: Remove #define BIT in local file
> > > >   spi/sf: Use BIT macro from linux/bitops.h
> > > >   linux/bitops.h: GENMASK copy from linux
> > > >   spi: Use GENMASK instead of numeric hexcodes
> > > 
> > > Any comments on this series - early push will have enough time to test
> > > and I have more patches that need to use these macros.
> > 
> > I'm not very fond of this macro, it makes the code more cryptic .
> 
> BIT/GENMASK are (growing in usage) kernel macros, so I think it'll help
> us in the long run.

I won't block this, but I'm not very fond of such cryptic stuff.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut