Re: [PATCH 1/2] regmap: provide helpers for simple bit operations

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Thu May 28 2020 - 09:57:40 EST


czw., 28 maj 2020 o 15:48 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ(a):
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 03:32:40PM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > czw., 28 maj 2020 o 15:29 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> napisaÅ(a):
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> > > Why macros and not static inlines?
>
> > The existing regmap_update_bits_*() helpers are macros too, so I tried
> > to stay consistent. Any reason why they are macros and not static
> > inlines? If there's none, then why not convert them too? Otherwise
> > we'd have a static inline expanding a macro which in turn is calling a
> > function (regmap_update_bits_base()).
>
> Not really, I think it was just that they're argument tables. It'd be
> good to convert them.

Ok. So I'm seeing there are a lot of macros in regmap.h that could
become static inlines but given the amount of regmap users: how about
we do it separately and in the meantime I'll just modify this series
to use static inlines?

Bartosz