Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] clk: introduce clk_div_mask() helper

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Thu Jun 18 2015 - 15:48:28 EST


On 03/31, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/clk-provider.h b/include/linux/clk-provider.h
> index 5591ea7..20b0b67 100644
> --- a/include/linux/clk-provider.h
> +++ b/include/linux/clk-provider.h
> @@ -353,6 +353,11 @@ struct clk_divider {
> spinlock_t *lock;
> };
>
> +static inline unsigned long clk_div_mask(u8 width)
> +{
> + return (1 << width) - 1;
> +}
> +

Why not just change drivers to use GENMASK? It's a proven and
tested way to generate a bitmask.

So I'd rather see drivers converted to use that macro directly
especially because the mask may need to start at some bit that
isn't 0.

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