Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] net: bridge: export supported boolopts

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On 24 November 2018 18:16:47 EET, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 04:34:22AM +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
>> Now that we have at least one bool option, we can export all of the
>> supported bool options via optmask when dumping them.
>> 
>Hi Nik
>
>That answers my question then...
>
>I'm assuming this means there is no easy way to generate a bitmask of
>0? So you waited until there was at least one bit.
>
>(1 << 2) - 1 = 3
>(1 << 1) - 1 = 1
>(1 << 0) - 1 = 0
>
>So does 
>
>GENMASK((BR_BOOLOPT_MAX - 1), 0);
>
>really not do the right thing when BR_BOOLOPT_MAX = 1?
>

GENMASK(0, 0) = 1
the minus is done before the shift. 
Think of it of setting all bits from 0 to MAX - 1 inclusive. 

>       Andrew


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