[PATCH v4 03/11] net: mvmdio: use GENMASK for masks
David Laight
David.Laight at ACULAB.COM
Mon Jun 19 04:57:51 PDT 2017
From: Antoine Tenart
> Sent: 14 June 2017 16:49
> Cosmetic patch to use the GENMASK helper for masks.
...
> - ret = val & 0xFFFF;
> + ret = val & GENMASK(15, 0);
My 2c: It isn't at all clear to me that changes like this in anyway
improve the code readability.
In some sense the '15' should be a named constant - but that just makes
it even less obvious what is going on.
David
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