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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:05:34 +0200
From: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org>,
catalin.marinas@....com, will@...nel.org, pcc@...gle.com,
andreyknvl@...il.com, linux@...musvillemoes.dk,
yury.norov@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, eugenis@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [v2 1/5] lib/bitmap: add bitmap_{set,get}_value_unaligned()
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 7:29 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> +Cc: William
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 02:57:01PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> > The two new functions allow setting/getting values of length up to
> > BITS_PER_LONG bits at arbitrary position in the bitmap.
>
> A couple of years (?) ago it was a series to achieve something like this with
> better (?) code. Why not resurrect that one?
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg2195426.html
It looks more compact thanks to GENMASK, I can cook something based on
the proposed bitmap_{set,get}_value (and change the names if you
prefer the shorter ones).
But I'd better avoid pulling in the rest of that series without a strong need.
> --
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
>
>
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