netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net/ibm/emac: wrong bit is used for STA control register write

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:44:44 +0300
From:   Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@...ibm.com>
To:     Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net/ibm/emac: wrong bit is used for STA control register write

> So if someone tries to #define EMAC_STACR_STAC_WRITE BIT(18) it would be
> 0x40000 instead. This is where the confusion is coming from. Can you please
> at least mention this somewhere that all the bits in the commit message are
> in "MSB 0" format? It's confusing enough as it is ;).
Yeap, sure, will do.

> Well, the MASK is not used and it now looks odd. So you might as well
> delete it. Maybe as well as all the unused EMACX_STACR_STAC_IND_* macros?
I'll check and delete if it's not used anywhere. Thanks for finding :)