On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 23:39 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 09:46:45PM +0100, Rikard Falkeborn wrote: > > Arguments are supposed to be ordered high then low. > > > > Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Spotted while trying to add compile time checks of GENMASK arguments. > > Patch has only been compile tested. > > My feeling, personally, is that GENMASK() really isn't worth the pain > it causes. Can we instead get rid of this thing and just use easier > to understand and less error-prone hex masks please? > > I don't care what anyone else says, personally I'm going to stick with > using hex masks as I find them way easier to get right first time than > a problematical opaque macro - and I really don't want the effort of > finding out that I've got the arguments wrong when I build it. It's > just _way_ easier and less error prone to use a hex mask straight off. I agree, but there are already more than 8000 uses of this rather silly (and perhaps backwards argument order) macro in the kernel.
