[RFC v2 1/8] video: tegra: Add nvhost driver

[Stephen Warren]

On 12/01/2012 07:58 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 01:31:02PM +0200, Terje Bergström wrote:
...
>> I was thinking of definitions like this:
>> 
>> static inline u32 host1x_sync_cfpeek_ctrl_cfpeek_addr_f(u32 v) { 
>> return (v & 0x1ff) << 0; }
>> 
>> versus
>> 
>> #define host1x_sync_cfpeek_ctrl_cfpeek_addr_f(v) ((v) >> 16) &
>> 0x3ff
>> 
>> Both of these produce the same machine code and have same usage,
>> but the latter has type checking and code coverage analysis and
>> the former is (in my eyes) clearer. In both of these cases the
>> usage is like this:
>> 
>> writel(host1x_sync_cfpeek_ctrl_cfpeek_ena_f(1) |
>> host1x_sync_cfpeek_ctrl_cfpeek_channr_f(chid) |
>> host1x_sync_cfpeek_ctrl_cfpeek_addr_f(rd_ptr), m->sync_aperture +
>> host1x_sync_cfpeek_ctrl_r());
> 
> Again there's no precedent for doing this with static inline
> functions. You can do the same with macros. Type checking isn't an
> issue in these cases since we're talking about bitfields for which
> no proper type exists.

I suspect the inline functions could encode signed-vs-unsigned fields,
perhaps catch u8 variables when they should have been u32, etc.?