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 16:02:24 -0700
From:   Quytelda Kahja <quytelda@...alin.org>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:     johannes@...solutions.net, 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_*.

The "document" refers to the file in which the changes were made
('include/linux/ieee80211.h').

I tend to try to split my commits into the smallest logically related
changes possible, hence the three patch series.  This particular case
may be a little on the extreme side, but if the maintainer desires,
they can always squash them together or ask me to resubmit as one
patch.

On 3/24/18, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> wrote:
> 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
>
-- 
Thank you,
Quytelda Kahja