[PATCH v3 2/2] thermal: uniphier: add UniPhier thermal driver
Masahiro Yamada
yamada.masahiro at socionext.com
Wed Jul 5 05:27:57 PDT 2017
2017-07-05 21:20 GMT+09:00 Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>:
> 2017-07-05 20:50 GMT+09:00 Kunihiko Hayashi <hayashi.kunihiko at socionext.com>:
>
>> +
>> +#define TMOD 0x0928
>> +#define TMOD_MASK GENMASK(9, 0)
>> +
> [ snip ]
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * The bit[8:0] of TMOD register represents 2's complement value
>> + * of temperature in Celsius. Since bit8 of TMOD shows a sign bit,
>> + * 32bit temperature value is obtained by sign extension.
>> + */
>
>
> Apparently, this comment does not match your code:
>
> #define TMOD_MASK GENMASK(9, 0)
>
>
> TMOD_MASK is indicating bit[9:0].
>
>
>
> Digging into the patch history, now I understood what happened.
>
>
>
> In v1, you described
> #define TMOD_MASK 0x1ff
>
> This was correct.
>
>
> In v2, you converted it into
> #define TMOD_MASK GENMASK(9, 0)
>
> This was misconversion. It should be GENMASK(8, 0)
>
>
>
> Anyway, TMOD_MASK is not used any more.
>
>
>> + *out_temp = sign_extend32(temp, 8) * 1000;
>
>
> Why magic number here?
>
> /* MSB of the TMOD field is a sign bit */
> *out_temp = sign_extend32(temp, TMOD_WIDTH) * 1000;
No. sign_extend32(temp, TMOD_WIDTH - 1) or
sign_extend32(temp, TMOD_MSB) or whatever.
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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