On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 04:36:51PM +0200, Garrit Franke wrote: > Hi all, newbie here. > Can the BIT macro be safely used on other parts of the kernel as well? > Just using git grep "1 <<" returns a ton of results where bit shifting > is used the old fashioned way. Yeah. There is a checkpatch warning for it and everything. :) But I like the way you think. Start with patches to staging though. People don't necessarily like doing cleanups on ancient code. regards, dan carpenter