linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 15/20] net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: switch to HWORD

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Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:08:20 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@...labora.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/20] net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: switch to HWORD_UPDATE macro

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 08:56:17PM +0200, Nicolas Frattaroli wrote:
> The era of hand-rolled HIWORD_UPDATE macros is over, at least for those
> drivers that use constant masks.
> 
> Like many other Rockchip drivers, dwmac-rk has its own HIWORD_UPDATE
> macro. Its semantics allow us to redefine it as a wrapper to the shared
> bitfield.h HWORD_UPDATE macros though.
> 
> Replace the implementation of this driver's very own HIWORD_UPDATE macro
> with an instance of HWORD_UPDATE from bitfield.h. This keeps the diff
> easily reviewable, while giving us more compile-time error checking.
> 
> The related GRF_BIT macro is left alone for now; any attempt to rework
> the code to not use its own solution here would likely end up harder to
> review and less pretty for the time being.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Frattaroli <nicolas.frattaroli@...labora.com>

Please split this out into a patch for net-next. Also, Russell King
has just posted a number of patches for this driver, so you will
probably want to wait for them to be merged, so you post something
which will merged without any fuzz.

	Andrew