linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7.1 0/4] bitfield initial refactor within nova-core (RESEND)

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Message-Id: <DDLHP1ABV9BA.3V0NXW3RWHGL6@nvidia.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:41:29 +0900
From: "Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@...dia.com>
To: "Joel Fernandes" <joelagnelf@...dia.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7.1 0/4] bitfield initial refactor within nova-core
 (RESEND)

On Fri Oct 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM JST, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> (Resending due to some commit message mistakes (missing SOB etc). Thanks!).
>
> These patches implement the initial refactoring and few improvements to the
> register and bitfield macros. Rebased on drm-rust-next.
>
> Main difference from the previous series [1] is dropped the moving out of
> nova-core pending BoundedInt changes:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251003154748.1687160-1-joelagnelf@nvidia.com/
> Other than that, added tags, resolved conflict with kernel::fmt changes and
> rebased on drm-rust-next.

Thanks, this version is looking pretty good, and works as intended.

I plan on pushing these 4 patches soonish after fixing the line length
issues and the other few problems reported by checkpatch.

Danilo, please let me know if you think this is premature, but imho it
is good to set this part in stone to avoid merge conflicts with future
patches that will want to modify the register macro.