linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] staging: media: atomisp: Refactor bit logic helpers in vmem.c

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Message-ID: <aLghfGH1ATFQT-9P@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 14:07:40 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
To: Adrian Barnaś <abarnas@...gle.com>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hansg@...nel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/2] staging: media: atomisp: Refactor bit logic
 helpers in vmem.c

On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 09:27:52AM +0000, Adrian Barnaś wrote:
> Refactor proposition for bit operation in vmem.c.
> * Previous name for function "inv_subword()" for me is not telling what
> function acctualy does - it clears bit specified by subword, so renamed
> to clear_subword()
> * Added a helper to create a proper bitmask for a subword, without using
> GENMASK(end-1, start) which was claimed to be unsafe
> * Simplified subword() and clear_subword() to be more readable.
> 
> Continuation of https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/20250902073841.2338568-1-abarnas@google.com/ 

Thanks for the effort, but I think it's just a tip of the iceberg.
What we really need is to completely rewrite hive_sim_wide_unpack()
and hive_sim_wide_pack(). If we want to preserve arbitrary bit numbers
we ought to use bitmap API rather than that custom approach.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko