[PATCH v6] serial: 8250_uniphier: add UniPhier serial driver
Shevchenko, Andriy
andriy.shevchenko at intel.com
Tue May 26 08:08:27 PDT 2015
On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 15:28 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > +
> > > +#define UNIPHIER_UART_CHAR_FCR 3 /* Character / FIFO Control Register */
> > > +#define UNIPHIER_UART_LCR_MCR 4 /* Line/Modem Control Register */
> > > +#define UNIPHIER_UART_LCR_SHIFT 8
> >
> > Indentation problem, needs to be fixed.
>
> If you are going to review a patch set at least look at the previous
> reviews - the indentation was already discussed and is done that way to
> show (as many drivers do) which are fields for which registers
This is not exactly the field, the way how to get the field.
In some cases it is even better to define something like
_LCR(x) ((x) << 8)
>
> > > +static unsigned int uniphier_serial_in(struct uart_port *p, int offset)
> > > +{
> > > + int valshift = 0;
> >
> > Perhaps unsigned int?
>
> Why ? even if it mattered gcc is already realising that the value can
> only be 0 or 8 and will be generating whatever works best for that.
It's not about how gcc does, it's about what assumptions can be made
from the reading of the source code. I think if we do a counter of shift
value it would be nice to set an unsigned type explicitly.
--
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko at intel.com>
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