Re: [PATCH v9 9/9] gpio: uniphier: Utilize for_each_set_clump8 macro

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Mar 12 2019 - 04:58:05 EST


On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:19 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:40 AM Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 4:51 PM William Breathitt Gray
> > <vilhelm.gray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Replace verbose implementation in set_multiple callback with
> > > for_each_set_clump8 macro to simplify code and improve clarity. An
> > > improvement in this case is that banks that are not masked will now be
> > > skipped.
>
> > Please do not do this.
> >
> > Nothing in this driver says the GPIO width is 8-bit.
>
> Huh?
>
> https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/include/dt-bindings/gpio/uniphier-gpio.h#L9
>
> Isn't a hardcoding?


Semi-hardcoding.

I needed to factor out some magic numbers
shared between DT and drivers.

Then, dt-bindings is out of realm of operating system.

If I am doing wrong, I take back my comments, though.



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada