linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: checkpatch: Tweak BIT() macro include

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Message-ID: <8735uhnoam.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 20 May 2021 14:27:45 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     dwaipayanray1@...il.com, lukas.bulwahn@...il.com, joe@...ches.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: checkpatch: Tweak BIT() macro include

Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au> writes:

> While include/linux/bitops.h brings in the BIT() macro, it was moved to
> include/linux/bits.h in commit 8bd9cb51daac ("locking/atomics, asm-generic:
> Move some macros from <linux/bitops.h> to a new <linux/bits.h> file").
>
> Since that commit BIT() has moved again into include/vdso/bits.h via
> commit 3945ff37d2f4 ("linux/bits.h: Extract common header for vDSO").
>
> I think the move to the vDSO header can be considered an implementation
> detail, so for now update the checkpatch documentation to recommend use
> of include/linux/bits.h.
>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
> Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>
> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> index 51fed1bd72ec..59fcc9f627ea 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> @@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ Macros, Attributes and Symbols
>  
>    **BIT_MACRO**
>      Defines like: 1 << <digit> could be BIT(digit).
> -    The BIT() macro is defined in include/linux/bitops.h::
> +    The BIT() macro is defined via include/linux/bits.h::

Applied, thanks.

jon