[PATCH v3 0/3] Fixed-type GENMASK/BIT
Vincent Mailhol
mailhol.vincent at wanadoo.fr
Sun Feb 2 10:40:35 UTC 2025
Hi Lucas and Yury,
On 08/02/2024 at 16:45, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> ove the implementation of REG_GENMASK/REG_BIT to a more appropriate
> place to be shared by i915, xe and possibly other parts of the kernel.
>
> For now this re-defines the old macros. In future we may start using the
> new macros directly, but that's a more intrusive search-and-replace.
>
> Changes from v2:
>
> - Document both in commit message and code about the strict type
> checking and give examples how it´d break with invalid params.
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-xe/20230509051403.2748545-1-lucas.demarchi@intel.com/
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/intel-xe/20240124050205.3646390-1-lucas.demarchi@intel.com
What is the status on this series? I read it and I think this is great.
So I am a bit sad to see it stalled for nearly one year.
With the -next development windows opening very soon, wouldn't it be a
good idea to revive this topic?
Yours sincerely,
Vincent Mailhol
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