Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: macb: Add support for SiFive FU540-C000

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Fri May 24 2019 - 09:51:55 EST


On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:22:06AM +0530, Yash Shah wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 8:24 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > +static int fu540_macb_tx_set_rate(struct clk_hw *hw, unsigned long rate,
> > > + unsigned long parent_rate)
> > > +{
> > > + rate = fu540_macb_tx_round_rate(hw, rate, &parent_rate);
> > > + iowrite32(rate != 125000000, mgmt->reg);
> >
> > That looks odd. Writing the result of a comparison to a register?
>
> The idea was to write "1" to the register if the value of rate is
> anything else than 125000000.

I'm not a language lawyer. Is it guaranteed that an expression like
this returns 1? Any value !0 is true, so maybe it actually returns 42?

> To make it easier to read, I will change this to below:
> - iowrite32(rate != 125000000, mgmt->reg);
> + if (rate != 125000000)
> + iowrite32(1, mgmt->reg);
> + else
> + iowrite32(0, mgmt->reg);
>
> Hope that's fine. Thanks for your comment

Yes, that is good.

Andrew