Re: [PATCH v1] ACPI / property: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()

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On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 15:39 +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 04:04:11PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Switch to bitmap_zalloc() to show clearly what we are allocating.
> > Besides that it returns pointer of bitmap type instead of opaque
> > void *.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Indeed this is much nicer, thanks!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> > - requires immutable branch [1] to be pulled first
> > [1]: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git
> > ib/4.17-bitmap
> 

+Cc: Dmitry

> The topmost commit on that branch says that static inline couldn't
> be used because of circular dependencies.  I'm wondering if using
> #define instead of static inline would've been possible.

Probably. You mean something like we have for IO accessors

#ifndef bitmap_alloc
#define bitmap_alloc bitmap_alloc
static inline void *bitmap_alloc(...)
{
...
}
#endif

?

I guess you may still have time to submit a patch.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy
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