[PATCH v10 5/6] rtc: max77686: Use ffs() to calculate tm_wday
Joe Perches
joe at perches.com
Fri Sep 19 12:52:27 PDT 2014
On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 21:27 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Joe,
Hello Javier.
> On 09/19/2014 04:39 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 12:26 +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >> The function max77686_rtc_calculate_wday() is used to
> >> calculate the day of the week to be filled in struct
> >> rtc_time but that function only calculates the number
> >> of bits shifted. So the ffs() function can be used to
> >> find the first bit set instead of a special function.
> >
> > This isn't the same logic. Perhaps you want fls.
> >
>
> Right, the removed function has the same logic than fls() - 1 but the value
> stored in data[RTC_WEEKDAY] is:
>
> data[RTC_WEEKDAY] = 1 << tm->tm_wday;
>
> so for this particular case, it doesn't matter since ffs() == fls() always.
I didn't look that far.
I just wanted to show that the logic wasn't the same.
Perhaps you can specify that ffs==fls in the changelog.
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