[PATCH v3 02/16] mfd: da8xx-cfgchip: New header file for CFGCHIP registers.
Sergei Shtylyov
sergei.shtylyov at cogentembedded.com
Mon Mar 28 09:42:14 PDT 2016
Hello.
On 03/28/2016 06:02 PM, David Lechner wrote:
>>> +/* register offsets */
>>> +#define CFGCHIP_REG(n) (n * 4)
>>> +#define CFGCHIP0_REG CFGCHIP_REG(0)
>>> +#define CFGCHIP1_REG CFGCHIP_REG(1)
>>> +#define CFGCHIP2_REG CFGCHIP_REG(2)
>>> +#define CFGCHIP3_REG CFGCHIP_REG(3)
>>> +#define CFGCHIP4_REG CFGCHIP_REG(4)
>>
>> Why not just use CFGCHIP_REG(n) directly?
>
> I considered that, but I went this way because A) the TRM uses, for example,
> "CFGCHIP2", so I wanted to keep "CFGCHIP" and "2" together
I'd just drop the _REG suffix.
> and B) this tells
> you how many CFGCHIP registers there are, i.e. there is no CFGCHIP5_REG.
You can tell that in a comment. Having a parametrized macro and using it
to just #define more macros doesn't appeal to me at all...
MBR, Sergei
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