linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] treewide: Fix GENMASK misuses

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Message-ID: <5fa1fa6998332642c49e2d5209193ffe2713f333.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:17:31 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Patrick Venture <venture@...gle.com>,
        Nancy Yuen <yuenn@...gle.com>,
        Benjamin Fair <benjaminfair@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] treewide: Fix GENMASK misuses

On Tue, 2019-07-09 at 22:04 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> These GENMASK uses are inverted argument order and the
> actual masks produced are incorrect.  Fix them.
> 
> Add checkpatch tests to help avoid more misuses too.
> 
> Joe Perches (12):
>   checkpatch: Add GENMASK tests

IMHO this doesn't make a lot of sense as a checkpatch test - just throw
in a BUILD_BUG_ON()?

johannes