Re: [PATCH v2 0/2 net] bitfield.h cleanups

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Mon Jul 20 2020 - 15:48:52 EST


On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:23 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 4:04 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Two patches, one that removes a BUILD_BUG_ON for a case that is not a
> > compile time bug (exposed by compiler optimization).
> >
> > The second is a general cleanup in the area.
> >
> > I decided to leave the BUILD_BUG_ON case first, as I hope it will
> > simplify being able to backport it to stable, and because I don't think
> > there's any type promotion+conversion bugs there.
> >
> > Though it would be nice to use consistent types widths and signedness,
> > equality against literal zero is not an issue.
> >
> > Jakub Kicinski (1):
> > bitfield.h: don't compile-time validate _val in FIELD_FIT
> >
> > Nick Desaulniers (1):
> > bitfield.h: split up __BF_FIELD_CHECK macro
> >
> > .../netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp_eth.c | 11 ++++----
> > include/linux/bitfield.h | 26 +++++++++++++------
> > 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.27.0.383.g050319c2ae-goog
> >
>
> Hey David, when you have a chance, could you please consider picking
> up this series?
> --

Hi David, bumping for review.
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers