Re: [PATCH 03/14] cxl/mem: Find device capabilities

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:23:31PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > I'd prefer to keep the helpers for now as I do find them helpful, and so far
> > nobody else who has touched the code has complained. If you feel strongly, I
> > will change it.
> 
> After seeing the options, I think I'd prefer to not have to worry what
> extra magic is happening with cxl_read_mbox_reg32()
> 
> cxl_read_mbox_reg32(cxlm, CXLDEV_MB_CAPS_OFFSET);
> 
> readl(cxlm->mbox_regs + CXLDEV_MB_CAPS_OFFSET);
> 
> The latter is both shorter and more idiomatic.

Same here.  That being said I know some driver maintainers like
wrappers, my real main irk was the macro magic to generate them.