linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs/arm64: cpu-feature-registers: Rewrite bitfields that don't follow [e, s]

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Message-ID: <20191101155338.GG17207@arrakis.emea.arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Nov 2019 15:53:38 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     Julien Grall <julien@....org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        suzuki.poulose@....com, Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/arm64: cpu-feature-registers: Rewrite bitfields
 that don't follow [e, s]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 03:38:04PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 03:20:22PM +0000, Julien Grall wrote:
> > From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>
> > 
> > Commit "docs/arm64: cpu-feature-registers: Documents missing visible
> > fields" added bitfiels following the convention [s, e]. However, the
> 
> typo: bitfiels
> 
> > documentation is following [s, e] and so does the Arm ARM.
> 
> This should be [e, s], although I think you can spell it out as "end" and
> "start" so people know what this is doing.

Thanks. I'll make the changes locally.

-- 
Catalin