Re: [PATCH 03/32 v3] dmaengine: ste_dma40: Use the BIT macro toreplace ugly '(1 << x)'s

From: Rabin Vincent
Date: Wed Apr 24 2013 - 15:24:51 EST


2013/4/24 Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> The aim is to make the code that little more readable.
>
> Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vnod.koul@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>

Please pay closer attention to the semantics of each usage instead of
just replacing all x left shifts of 1 by BIT(x) for "readability".

> if (seg_max > STEDMA40_MAX_SEG_SIZE)
> - seg_max -= (1 << max_w);
> + seg_max -= BIT(max_w);
>
> - if (!IS_ALIGNED(size, 1 << max_w))
> + if (!IS_ALIGNED(size, BIT(max_w)))
> return -EINVAL;

Here and in all other places where the values are from cfg->data_width,
the semantic purpose of the shift is not for setting a particular bit
but instead for converting the data_width field into the data width
value in bytes. You should not change these usages to BIT().

It would be instead better to just make the cfg->data_width as the
number of bytes and convert them to the appropriate hardware field
values when the descriptors are constructed. That of course should be
in another patch.
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