Re: [PATCH v5 4/7] gpio: pca953x: define masks for addressing common and extended registers

From: H. Nikolaus Schaller
Date: Fri May 04 2018 - 03:37:10 EST


Hi Linus,

> Am 02.05.2018 um 14:36 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
>> Am 02.05.2018 um 14:29 schrieb Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 7:31 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> These mask bits are to be used to map the extended register
>>> addreseses (which are defined for an unsupported 8-bit pcal chip)
>>> to 16 and 24 bit chips (pcal6524).
>>>

>>>
>>> +#define PCAL_GPIO_MASK GENMASK(4, 0)
>>> +#define PCAL_PINCTRL_MASK (~PCAL_GPIO_MASK)
>>
>> I'm not sure which would be better here
>>
>> 1) to follow existing style
>> 0x1F
>> 0xE0
>>
>> 2) to use GENMASK() in both definitions
>>
>> 3) as it in this patch.
>>
>>
>> Whatever Linus prefers.
>
> Ok, waiting for his suggestion.

Any advice if we should change or keep this?

(Please do not merge before I submit a v6 because there are
some more suggested-by and reviewed-by).

BR and thanks,
Nikolaus