Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] soundwire: Add Master registration

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:19:44PM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 04:05:22PM +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:

> > >+	*bus->assigned = ~GENMASK(SDW_BROADCAST_DEV_NUM, SDW_ENUM_DEV_NUM);

> > Can't we use ida for this.
> > This would also cut down code added for allocating dev_num.

> Device numbers in SoundWire are 0 thru 15 with 0 and 15 having special
> meaning so can'r be allocated. Bitmaps give me a nice way to ensure we dont
> use those by masking these and above 15... IDR uses bitmap with stuff on top
> which maynot be helpful here as I need a number 1 to 14. For a generic, give
> me a number IDRs are very useful.

Perhaps we need some comments or something explaining the constraints
here to stop people doing misguided cleanups?

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