linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/20] bitfield: introduce HWORD

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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:59:15 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] bitfield: introduce HWORD_UPDATE bitfield macros

On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:28:40 -0400 Yury Norov wrote:
> > > And perhaps that (and more potential users) could persuade Jakub that
> > > this is not that weird after all?  
> > 
> > I will operate under the assumption that Jakub's opinion will not change
> > as he ignored the commit message that talks about multiple vendors,
> > ignored the cover letter that talks about multiple vendors, and ignored
> > my e-mail where I once again made it clear to him that it's multiple
> > vendors, and still claims it's a Rockchip specific convention.  
> 
> As far as I understood, he concerns not about number of drivers that
> opencode HIWORD_UPDATE(), but that this macro is not generic enough
> to live in bitfield.h. And it's a valid concern - I doubt it will
> be helpful somewhere in core and arch files.

Exactly.