linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] units: Add SI metric prefix definitions

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Date:   Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:00:41 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        wsa@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] units: Add SI metric prefix definitions

On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 18:57 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 08:43:02AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 18:23 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > Sometimes it's useful to have well-defined SI metric prefix to be used
> > > to self-describe the formulas or equations.
-=
> > The only use of any of these seems to be:
> > 
> > sound/pcmcia/vx/vxp_ops.c:      [VX_MICRO]      = 0x0c,         // MICRO
> > sound/pcmcia/vx/vxp_ops.c:              vx_outb(chip, MICRO, level);
> > sound/pcmcia/vx/vxp_ops.c:                      vx_outb(chip, MICRO, vx_compute_mic_level(chip->mic_level));
> > 
> > and these vx_outb uses are themselves macros that prepend VX_ to the 2nd arg.
> 
> Is it a real issue there?

No, it's all good.