[PATCH 2/6] PCI: Add PCI_EXP_SLTCAP_*_SHIFT macros
Bjorn Helgaas
helgaas at kernel.org
Fri Feb 25 09:51:11 PST 2022
On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 06:22:16PM +0100, Marek Behún wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 09:37:56 -0600
> Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas at kernel.org> wrote:
> > Yes, it's a mix. For some recent additions, I've resisted adding the
> > _SHIFT macros on the theory that they clutter the file, they never
> > change, and the main point of the #defines is readability and so
> > grep/tags/etc can find things.
> >
> > There are a *few* users of FIELD_PREP() and FIELD_GET():
> >
> > git grep -E "FIELD_(GET|PREP)\(PCI_EXP"
> >
> > and I'm inclined to go that direction in the future. What do you
> > think?
>
> I am also pro that direction.
>
> Would you also like to convert current usages in the .c driver files?
>
> We can't remove the existing macros since they are in UAPI, but we can
> convert drivers so that they don't use _SHIFT macros.
Certainly not a high priority, but it actually looks like there aren't
*that* many uses in drivers/pci/, so I'd be OK with converting them.
Bjorn
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