linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] pwm: lpss: Make use of bits.h macros for all masks

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Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:49:57 +0200
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] pwm: lpss: Make use of bits.h macros for all masks

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 05:43:07PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 04:20:46PM +0200, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 07:24:20PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > Make use of the GENMASK() (far less error-prone, far more concise).
> > 
> > Very subjective.
> 
> See an example why not: 0a90ed8d0cfa ("platform/x86: pmc_atom: Fix SLP_TYPx
> bitfield mask").

Hardly comparable to this particular case. And really this is stuff
that's getting on my nerves. People constantly replacing perfectly fine
code with something equivalent just for the sake of it.

Thierry

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