From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/6] ARM: tegra: MASK_BITS_ no longer needs specific values
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:09:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E29E5F.5@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140124135011.GC25720@ulmo.nvidia.com>
On 01/24/2014 06:50 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:20:35PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
>> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>>
>> Since all code that sets or interprets MASK_BITS_* now uses the enums
>> to define/compare the values, there is no need for MASK_BITS_* to have
>> a specific integer value. In fact, having a specific integer value may
>> encourage people to hard-code those values, or interpret the values in
>> incorrect ways.
>>
>> As such, remove the logic that assigns a specific value to the enum
>> values in order to make it completely clear that it's just an enum, not
>> something that directly represents some integer value.
>
> Ah yes, that's a nice way to clean it up as well, so my earlier comment
> about turning these into defines can be considered obsolete.
I guess I should read all the replies first:-)
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-tegra/clock.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/arch-tegra/clock.h
>> enum {
>> - MASK_BITS_31_30 = 2, /* num of bits used to specify clock source */
>> + MASK_BITS_31_30, /* num of bits used to specify clock source */
>
> Should the comment not be removed as well now?
Well, it the enum name still defines the position (and size), just not
the value any more:-)
But yes, it's obvious enough without the commment, so I'll remove that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-24 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-22 20:20 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] ARM: tegra: deduplicate MASK_BITS_xxx clock mux enum Stephen Warren
2014-01-22 20:20 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/6] ARM: tegra: rename MASK_BITS_29_28 to MASK_BITS_31_28 Stephen Warren
2014-01-24 13:44 ` Thierry Reding
2014-01-24 17:08 ` Stephen Warren
2014-01-22 20:20 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] ARM: tegra: rename OUT_CLK_SOURCE_* Stephen Warren
2014-01-24 13:47 ` Thierry Reding
2014-01-24 17:08 ` Stephen Warren
2014-01-22 20:20 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/6] ARM: tegra: use MASK_BITS_* macros everywhere Stephen Warren
2014-01-22 20:20 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 5/6] ARM: tegra: MASK_BITS_ no longer needs specific values Stephen Warren
2014-01-24 13:50 ` Thierry Reding
2014-01-24 17:09 ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2014-01-22 20:20 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 6/6] ARM: tegra: implement MASK_BITS_31_29 Stephen Warren
2014-01-22 21:35 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/6] ARM: tegra: deduplicate MASK_BITS_xxx clock mux enum Tom Warren
2014-01-22 21:54 ` Stephen Warren
2014-01-22 22:05 ` Tom Warren
2014-01-24 13:54 ` Thierry Reding
2014-01-24 17:15 ` Stephen Warren
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