Re: [PATCH v3 02/16] mfd: da8xx-cfgchip: New header file for CFGCHIP registers.

From: Sergei Shtylyov
Date: Mon Mar 28 2016 - 12:42:37 EST


Hello.

On 03/28/2016 06:02 PM, David Lechner wrote:

+/* register offsets */
+#define CFGCHIP_REG(n) (n * 4)
+#define CFGCHIP0_REG CFGCHIP_REG(0)
+#define CFGCHIP1_REG CFGCHIP_REG(1)
+#define CFGCHIP2_REG CFGCHIP_REG(2)
+#define CFGCHIP3_REG CFGCHIP_REG(3)
+#define CFGCHIP4_REG CFGCHIP_REG(4)

Why not just use CFGCHIP_REG(n) directly?

I considered that, but I went this way because A) the TRM uses, for example,
"CFGCHIP2", so I wanted to keep "CFGCHIP" and "2" together

I'd just drop the _REG suffix.

and B) this tells
you how many CFGCHIP registers there are, i.e. there is no CFGCHIP5_REG.

You can tell that in a comment. Having a parametrized macro and using it to just #define more macros doesn't appeal to me at all...

MBR, Sergei