Re: [PATCH 1/3] ASoC: sh: rz-ssi: Drop unused macros

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Prabhakar,

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 6:09 PM Lad, Prabhakar
<prabhakar.csengg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 1:49 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 7:32 PM Lad Prabhakar
> > <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Drop unused macros SSIFSR_TDC and SSIFSR_RDC.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro1.iwamatsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks for your patch!
> >
> > What does this fix?
> > Is the real issue that there are 32 FIFO entries, and the TDC and RDC
> > fields are 6 bits wide, while the mask uses 0x1f instead of 0x3f?
> >
> I was in two minds here as you have already spotted the masks are
> incorrect, instead of fixing the masks I choose to drop the macros
> itself as they were not used. Let me know what are your thoughts on
> this.

IC.

I don't have a preference.
So please either remove them, and make it clear they were wrong,
so no one is tempted to just revert the removal to start using the
definitions, or either keep them, and fix the definitions.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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