Re: [PATCH 6/6] Staging: iio: resolver: Prefer using the BIT macro

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Thu Sep 10 2015 - 04:06:09 EST




On Wed, 9 Sep 2015, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 09:43 +0530, Shraddha Barke wrote:
> > This patch replaces bit shifting on 1 with the BIT(x) macro
> > as it's extensively used by other function in this driver.
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c b/drivers/staging/iio/resolver/ad2s1210.c
> []
> > @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ int ad2s1210_update_frequency_control_word(struct ad2s1210_state *st)
> > int ret;
> > unsigned char fcw;
> >
> > - fcw = (unsigned char)(st->fexcit * (1 << 15) / st->fclkin);
> > + fcw = (unsigned char)(st->fexcit * BIT(15) / st->fclkin);
>
> Multiplying by a bit isn't very obvious.
> Maybe just shift it.
>
> fcw = (unsigned char)((st->fexcit << 15) / st->fclkin);

That looks nicer. Shraddha maybe you can find this issue elsewhere.

julia
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