[Patch v2 03/11] ARM: hwcaps: use shifts instead of hardcoded constants

Sergei Shtylyov sshtylyov at mvista.com
Mon Jun 13 09:55:16 EDT 2011


Hello.

On 08-06-2011 16:30, Will Deacon wrote:

> The HWCAP numbers are defined as constants, each one being a power of 2.
> This has become slightly unwieldy now that we have reached 32k.

> This patch changes the HWCAP defines to use (1<<  n) instead of coding
> the constant directly. The values remain unchanged.

    Perhaps it's better to use BIT(n) macro instead?

> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

WBR, Sergei



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