linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] bitmap: drop _reg

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Message-ID: <ZN3szFnWIBtFwg9K@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:47:56 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/8] bitmap: drop _reg_op() function

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 04:36:27PM -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> Now that all _reg_op() users are switched to alternative functions,
> _reg_op() machinery is not needed anymore.

...

> - * Can set, verify and/or release a region of bits in a bitmap,
> - * depending on which combination of REG_OP_* flag bits is set.
> - *
> - * A region of a bitmap is a sequence of bits in the bitmap, of
> - * some size '1 << order' (a power of two), aligned to that same
> - * '1 << order' power of two.

Just wondering if we have some equivalent to the above doc in the
existing kernel doc of users of this.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko