[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/2] linux/bitops.h: Add BIT macro

[Jagan Teki]

Hi Simon,

On 29 April 2015 at 20:12, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On 29 April 2015 at 07:08, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 05:35:05PM +0530, Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki wrote:
>>
>>> Replace (1 << nr) to BIT(nr) where nr = 0, 1, 2 .... 31
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jagannadha Sutradharudu Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com>
>>> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
>>> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
>>> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>
>> I think that conceptually this is a good idea.  We need to apply this
>> fairly quickly however as it already throws out a few rejects with the
>> PRs I've taken and doing some local testing on.
>
> We have to date avoided this (I've been here before). But I think it
> is useful. One concern I have is misuse, when someone does BIT(0) |
> BIT(1))| BIT(2) | BIT(3) instead of 0xf, for example.

Probably we can achieve this with GENMASK(h, l), may be we can add that also?

>
> Anyway as you say, let's do it fast if we are going this way.

thanks!
-- 
Jagan.