From: LABBE Corentin <clabbe@baylibre•com>
To: Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s•fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] include: add setbits32/clrbits32/clrsetbits32/setbits64/clrbits64/clrsetbits64 in linux/setbits.h
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:53:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180910185325.GC7819@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a1795266-5679-289d-5cce-1111babf3180@c-s.fr>
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 07:22:04AM +0200, Christophe LEROY wrote:
>
>
> Le 07/09/2018 à 21:41, Corentin Labbe a écrit :
> > This patch adds setbits32/clrbits32/clrsetbits32 and
> > setbits64/clrbits64/clrsetbits64 in linux/setbits.h header.
>
> So you changed the name of setbits32() ... to setbits32_be() and now you
> are adding new functions called setbits32() ... which do something
> different ?
>
> What will happen if any file has been forgotten during the conversion,
> or if anybody has outoftree drivers and missed this change ?
> They will silently successfully compile without any error or warning,
> and the result will be crap buggy.
>
> And why would it be more legitim to have setbits32() be implicitely LE
> instead of implicitely BE ?
>
> I really think those new functions should be called something like
> setbits_le32() ...
>
I believed that writel/readl was endian agnostic so it explain my mistake.
I will use xxxbits_le32 as you requests.
Thanks
Regards
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-10 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 19:41 [PATCH 0/5] introduce setbits32/clrbits32/clrsetbits32/setbits64/clrbits64/clrsetbits64 functions Corentin Labbe
2018-09-07 19:41 ` [PATCH 1/5] powerpc: rename setbits32/clrbits32 to setbits32_be/clrbits32_be Corentin Labbe
2018-09-10 5:16 ` Christophe LEROY
2018-09-10 18:50 ` LABBE Corentin
2018-09-07 19:41 ` [PATCH 2/5] include: add setbits32/clrbits32/clrsetbits32/setbits64/clrbits64/clrsetbits64 in linux/setbits.h Corentin Labbe
2018-09-07 20:00 ` Scott Wood
2018-09-10 18:49 ` LABBE Corentin
2018-09-10 5:22 ` Christophe LEROY
2018-09-10 18:53 ` LABBE Corentin [this message]
2018-09-07 19:41 ` [PATCH RFC 3/5] coccinelle: add xxxsetbitsXX converting spatch Corentin Labbe
2018-09-09 11:13 ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-09-07 19:41 ` [PATCH 4/5] net: ethernet: stmmac: use xxxsetbits32 Corentin Labbe
2018-09-07 19:41 ` [PATCH 5/5] ata: ahci_sunxi: use xxxsetbits32 functions Corentin Labbe
2018-09-07 21:57 ` [PATCH 0/5] introduce setbits32/clrbits32/clrsetbits32/setbits64/clrbits64/clrsetbits64 functions David Miller
2018-09-10 5:24 ` Christophe LEROY
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