Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] gpiolib: Pass bitmaps, not integer arrays, to get/set array

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:48 PM Janusz Krzysztofik <jmkrzyszt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So it's no secret that I strongly fancy this patch set.

What would be great at this point is to have some people test
that the drivers still work as expected, even better if they can do
some benchmarking.

> -               values[PIN_DATA0 + i] = !!(val & BIT(i));
> -       values[PIN_CTRL_RS] = rs;
> +       value_bitmap[0] = val;
> +       __assign_bit(PIN_CTRL_RS, value_bitmap, rs);
>         n = 9;
>         if (hd->pins[PIN_CTRL_RW]) {
> -               values[PIN_CTRL_RW] = 0;
> +               __clear_bit(PIN_CTRL_RW, value_bitmap);

This seems fine to me, but I understand the comment that the
code becomes harder to read.

I think part of it is those __assign_bit() and __clear_bit() with
the double-underscore of unclear meaning. The meaning is
"non atomic" IIRC, so maybe I should move forward
with my plan to send a sed script to Torvalds just renaming all
of those to something sane in the next merge window.

Like __assign_bit() -> assign_bit_nonatomic()

Yours,
Linus Walleij