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Re: [PATCH] irq_work: improve the flag definitions

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On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> wrote:
> IRQ_WORK_FLAGS is defined simply to 3UL. This is confusing as it
> says nothing about its purpose. Define IRQ_WORK_FLAGS as a bitwise
> OR of IRQ_WORK_PENDING and IRQ_WORK_BUSY.
>
> While we're at it: use the BIT() macro for all flags.

> +#define IRQ_WORK_PENDING       BIT(0)
> +#define IRQ_WORK_BUSY          BIT(1)
> +#define IRQ_WORK_FLAGS         (IRQ_WORK_PENDING | IRQ_WORK_BUSY)

I dunno which style is preferred, though I would go with simple
GENMASK() here, as all definitions right on left :-)

Parameters of GENMASK will show last-first entries and can be easily decoded.
Although there are only two for now.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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[PATCH] irq_work: improve the flag definitions Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> - 2017-08-14 14:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] irq_work: improve the flag definitions Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-08-14 14:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] irq_work: improve the flag definitions Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> - 2017-08-14 19:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] irq_work: improve the flag definitions Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl> - 2017-08-15 11:20 +0200

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