On 21-02-04 07:16:46, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:23:31PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > I'd prefer to keep the helpers for now as I do find them helpful, and so far > > > nobody else who has touched the code has complained. If you feel strongly, I > > > will change it. > > > > After seeing the options, I think I'd prefer to not have to worry what > > extra magic is happening with cxl_read_mbox_reg32() > > > > cxl_read_mbox_reg32(cxlm, CXLDEV_MB_CAPS_OFFSET); > > > > readl(cxlm->mbox_regs + CXLDEV_MB_CAPS_OFFSET); > > > > The latter is both shorter and more idiomatic. > > Same here. That being said I know some driver maintainers like > wrappers, my real main irk was the macro magic to generate them. I think the wrapper is often used as a means of trying to have cross OS compatibility to some degree. Just to be clear, that was *not* the purpose here. Stating I disagree for posterity, I'll begin reworking this code and it will be changed for v2. Thanks. Ben