[PATCH v5 2/2] mtd: rawnand: use bit-wise majority to recover the contents of ONFI parameter

Andy Shevchenko andy.shevchenko at gmail.com
Tue May 15 00:46:00 PDT 2018


On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon at bootlin.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2018 20:54:36 +0300
> Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Boris Brezillon
>> <boris.brezillon at bootlin.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> +#define GET_BIT(bit, val)   (((val) >> (bit)) & 0x01)
>> >
>> > Not sure we need that macro, see below.
>>
>> +1. We have too many nice helpers for bit manipulations
>> (for_each_set_bit() as an example).
>>
>>
>> >                         for (k = 0; k < nbufs; k++) {
>> >                                 const u8 *srcbuf = srcbufs[j];
>> >
>> >                                 if (srcbuf[i] & BIT(k))
>> >                                         m++;
>> >                         }
>>
>> ...which is effectively hweightXX().
>
> No it's not.

I don't see how "not". In the loop everithing except m and k are
invariants. What did I miss?

The powerness of two of nbufs is another thing of _existing_
prototypes of hweightXX().

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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