Re: [PATCH 01/20] bitfield: introduce HWORD_UPDATE bitfield macros

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Jun 12 2025 - 15:44:33 EST


On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:56:03 +0200 Nicolas Frattaroli wrote:
> Hardware of various vendors, but very notably Rockchip, often uses
> 32-bit registers where the upper 16-bit half of the register is a
> write-enable mask for the lower half.

Please limit the spread of this weirdness to a rockchip or "hiword"
specific header. To a normal reader of bitfield.h these macros will
be equally confusing and useless.