Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: geni: Make version macros simpler

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Fri Jun 22 2018 - 13:39:30 EST


Quoting Bjorn Andersson (2018-06-22 09:54:54)
> On Fri 18 May 15:47 PDT 2018, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>
> > This macro doesn't work, because it hides a local variable inside of the
> > macro to hold the version and that variable name is called 'ver' and
> > 'version' sometimes.
> >
> > Let's change this to be more explicit. Introduce three macros for the
> > major, minor, and step of the version, and require callers to pass the
> > version in to get the part of the version out. This way we don't hide
> > local variables inside macros and things are less evil overall.
> >
> > Cc: Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian <kramasub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Sagar Dharia <sdharia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Girish Mahadevan <girishm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I was expecting that someone referenced this macro, but I guess that's
> coming?

The SPI driver does.