Re: [PATCH v3 net-next] ravb: do not write 1 to reserved bits

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Hi Sergei,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:55 PM Sergei Shtylyov
<sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/18/2018 01:22 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
> > From: Kazuya Mizuguchi <kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > EtherAVB hardware requires 0 to be written to status register bits in
> > order to clear them, however, care must be taken not to:
> >
> > 1. Clear other bits, by writing zero to them
> > 2. Write one to reserved bits
> >
> > This patch corrects the ravb driver with respect to the second point above.
> > This is done by defining reserved bit masks for the affected registers and,
> > after auditing the code, ensure all sites that may write a one to a
> > reserved bit use are suitably masked.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kazuya Mizuguchi <kazuya.mizuguchi.ks@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [...]
>
> Reviewed-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
> > index 1470fc12282b..9b6bf557a2f5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb.h
> > @@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ enum EIS_BIT {
> >       EIS_CULF1       = 0x00000080,
> >       EIS_TFFF        = 0x00000100,
> >       EIS_QFS         = 0x00010000,
> > +     EIS_RESERVED    = (GENMASK(31, 17) | GENMASK(15, 11)),
>
>    Well, I'm not a big fan of BIT() and GENMASK() -- they still lack a macro
> to #define a bit/field value. But if you prefer to use them, OK, let's be so...

FIELD_PREP()?

Perhaps the other bit definitions should be converted to BIT()?
That way it becomes much easier to match valid EIS_* bits with EIS_RESERVED.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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