[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 21/24] spi: mxs_spi: Use GENMASK

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Oct 22 23:30:10 CEST 2015


On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 11:15:26 PM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On 23 October 2015 at 02:38, Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Jagan Teki <jteki at openedev.com> wrote:
> >> Replace numeric mask hexcodes with GENMASK macro in mxs_spi
> >> 
> >> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jteki at openedev.com>
> >> ---
> >> 
> >>  drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c b/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c
> >> index 627644b..459c603 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c
> >> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
> >> 
> >>  #define        MXS_SPI_MAX_TIMEOUT     1000000
> >>  #define        MXS_SPI_PORT_OFFSET     0x2000
> >> 
> >> -#define MXS_SSP_CHIPSELECT_MASK                0x00300000
> >> +#define MXS_SSP_CHIPSELECT_MASK                GENMASK(21, 20)
> > 
> > Does this really improve the code?
> 
> GENMASK will simplificate

You mean [1] ? :-) In that case, I agree ...
"
simplificate

verb - the action of taking an answered that is simplified and extending the 
answer to the point of complete and utter obscurity, unreadable by anyone, yet 
still correct.

See also: BS 
"

[1] http://cs.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=simplificate&defid=2897356

> the bit masking and most of drivers in Linux
> start using this along with BIT for bit shifting.
> 
> > Personally I prefer the original code as I don't need to go and look
> > at the definition of the GENMASK() macro.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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