Re: [PATCH] clocksource/drivers/npcm: fix GENMASK and timer operation

[Thomas Gleixner]

Avi,

On Mon, 15 Jul 2019, Avi Fishman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:37 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   9bdd7bb3a844 ("clocksource/drivers/npcm: Fix misuse of GENMASK macro")
> 
> The automatic fix changed from
> GENMASK(3, 27) to
> GENMASK(27, 3)
> I reviewd again the code to check how it worked so far and saw that it
> should have been
> GENMASK(28, 27) - this is a different value than 9bdd7bb3a844
> For our fortune this wrong value didn't effect the our final write to
> the register.
> But still this should be fixed.

Fair enough. Please explain it proper in the changelog.

Thanks,

	tglx