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From: LABBE Corentin <clabbe@baylibre•com>
To: Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s•fr>
Cc: Gilles.Muller@lip6•fr, Julia.Lawall@lip6•fr, agust@denx•de,
	alexandre.torgue@st•com, alistair@popple•id.au,
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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

  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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