linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] ieee80211: Replace bit shifts with the BIT() macro for WLAN_CAPABILITY

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Date:   Sat, 24 Mar 2018 16:23:02 -0500
From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:     Quytelda Kahja <quytelda@...alin.org>, johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ieee80211: Replace bit shifts with the BIT() macro
 for WLAN_CAPABILITY_*.

On 03/23/2018 11:10 PM, Quytelda Kahja wrote:
> It is neater and more consistent with the rest of the document to use the
> BIT() macro from 'linux/bitops.h' to define the WLAN_CAPABILITY_*
> bitmasks.  In the case of WLAN_CAPABILITY_DMG_TYPE_{IBSS, PBSS, AP},
> bitshifting integers by 0 does nothing, so there is no reason to do it in
> the code; replace these values with plain integers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quytelda Kahja <quytelda@...alin.org>

In the commit message for all of these, what is the "document" to which you refer?

I'm not quite sure why you split these changes into 3 parts, but I guess that is OK.

Larry