Re: [PATCH v5 09/10] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence I3C GPIO expander

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 1:54 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 21:36 +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>> I mean, kzalloc() is not deprecated AFAIK and I don't really see the
>> benefit of using kmalloc_array(), but if that makes you happy, let's go
>> for kmalloc_array().
>
> kcalloc

IIRC in the original code kmalloc(x*y) is used.

>> I do run checkpatch --strict and fix most of the thing reported except
>> those hurting readability. I don't remember seeing checkpatch complain
>> about kzalloc() usage, and I guess it's not smart enough to detect that
>> for_each_bit_set() can be used to replace the "for() if (BIT(x) & val)"
>> pattern.
>
> That would not an appropriate conversion suggestion in any case.
> coccinelle could at least look at whether or not x is allocated
> as a bitmap via DECLARE_BITMAP or bitmap_alloc

Huh?!

bitmap operations are working against unsigned long *. one long is
also a bitmap.
So, that coccinelle scripts must be fixed accordingly.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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