Re: [PATCH 1/5] adt7462: New hwmon driver

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:04:51 -0800
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 10:56 -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > New driver to play with.  As Jean mentioned a couple of years ago,
> > this
> > chip is a beast with odd combinations of 8 fans, 4 temperatures, and 
> > 13 voltage sensors.  This driver has been tested on an IntelliStation
> > Z30.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > +#define MASK_AND_SHIFT(value, prefix)	\
> > +	(((value) & prefix##_MASK) >> prefix##_SHIFT)
> > +
> 
> I'm not sure, but doesn't this exist somewhere in the common kernel
> headers.

No, core kernel doesn't have a macro which requires that the caller
previously defined foo_MASK and foo_SHIFT.  Only drivers are allowed to
get away with such fugliness ;)

> > +#define ROUND_DIV(x, divisor)  (((x) + ((divisor) / 2)) / (divisor))
> 
> DIV_ROUND_UP ?

That's different.  This one should be called ROUND_CLOSEST or something
like that.

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