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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Kocialkowski <contact@paulk.fr>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: Use a bitfield for continuous_voltage_range
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:42:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453498953.13870.41.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160122213115.GF6588@sirena.org.uk>

On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 21:31 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:15:28AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 20:24 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > -	bool continuous_voltage_range;
> > > +	unsigned int continuous_voltage_range:1;
> 
> > Is this really valuable?
> 
> > There are already padding bytes that are unused
> > and adding a couple more bools would be space
> > cost-free and more readable.
> 
> > I believe that read/write of bytes is also more
> > efficient on some architectures than bit field
> > read/modify/write uses.
> 
> It adds up when you get more flags and these are not in the least bit
> performance sensitive.

Sure, but intelligibility is useful too.
Do you expect to have more than 4 of these flags?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-21 20:24 Mark Brown
2016-01-21 20:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] regulator: core: Provide per-regulator runtime PM support Mark Brown
2016-01-21 21:49   ` kbuild test robot
2016-01-29 12:02   ` Paul Kocialkowski
2016-02-09 20:51   ` Paul Kocialkowski
2016-02-12 19:24     ` Paul Kocialkowski
2016-02-26  2:13       ` Mark Brown
2016-01-22 19:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] regulator: core: Use a bitfield for continuous_voltage_range Joe Perches
2016-01-22 21:31   ` Mark Brown
2016-01-22 21:42     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-01-23 15:16       ` Mark Brown
2016-04-21 16:11 ` Applied "regulator: core: Use a bitfield for continuous_voltage_range" to the regulator tree Mark Brown

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