Re: [PATCH v5 2/9] tty: serial: amba: Use linux/{bits,bitfield}.h macros

From: Ilpo Järvinen
Date: Thu Dec 07 2023 - 04:56:36 EST


On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Théo Lebrun wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Thu Dec 7, 2023 at 2:37 AM CET, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 03:07:14PM +0100, Théo Lebrun wrote:
> > > The driver uses bit shifts and hexadecimal expressions to declare
> > > constants. Replace that with the BIT(), GENMASK() & FIELD_PREP_CONST()
> > > macros to clarify intent.
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > include/linux/amba/serial.h | 248 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> > > 1 file changed, 127 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
> >
> > As 0-day had a problem with this patch, I've applied only patch 1 of
> > this series. Can you fix it up and rebase and resend the rest again
> > (while adding the collected reviewed-by that some patches in this series
> > had)?
>
> So the issue is this: the header file gets included in
> arch/arm/include/debug/pl01x.S that gets included in arch/arm/kernel/debug.S
> (see #include CONFIG_DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE).
>
> I don't see any easy way out of this, so I guess it means the patch must be
> dropped. If someone confirms that there are indeed no solution to have BIT(),
> GENMASK() & FIELD_PREP_CONST() accessible from assembly, I'll send the next
> version.

Yeah, it seems to require UART01x_FR_TXFF and UART01x_FR_BUSY, plus
UART01x_DR and UART01x_FR that are not touched by your patch.

I suppose the rest might be convertable though..

--
i.