netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 01/13] lib: Add support for generic packing operations

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Message-ID: <20190324190226.jr5cqxqflkfn4uvl@localhost>
Date:   Sun, 24 Mar 2019 12:02:26 -0700
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...il.com, linus.walleij@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 01/13] lib: Add support for generic packing
 operations

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 05:23:34AM +0200, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> This provides an unified API for accessing register bit fields
> regardless of memory layout. The basic unit of data for these API
> functions is the u64. The process of transforming an u64 from native CPU
> encoding into the peripheral's encoding is called 'pack', and
> transforming it from peripheral to native CPU encoding is 'unpack'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/packing.txt | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS               |   8 ++
>  include/linux/packing.h   |  49 +++++++++
>  lib/Makefile              |   2 +-
>  lib/packing.c             | 211 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

For this kind of generic infrastructure, you really should CC the lkml
to get proper review.

Thanks,
Richard