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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Nathan Chancellor' <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] pinctrl: generic: Avoid several implicit enum conversions
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 11:46:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ddee1f762ab404a8acc8ce05c96da78@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181101000338.GA32577@flashbox>

From: Nathan Chancellor
> Sent: 01 November 2018 00:04
...
> > A slightly lesser evil variant is to add a few PIN_CONFIG_CUSTOM_1
> > PIN_CONFIG_CUSTOM_2 etc at the end of the enum and just
> > #define MY_CONFIG PIN_CONFIG_CUSTOM_1
> > in all drivers that use these.
> >
> 
> Some drivers actually just define their pin config params like:
> 
> #define VAR (PIN_CONFIG_END + 1)

You probably want to add 'custom' definitions after PIN_CONFIG_END
so that a future compiler versions doesn't generate an error
because (PIN_CONFIG_END + 1) isn't a valid value for the enum.

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-01 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-25  6:18 [PATCH] pinctrl: generic: Avoid several implicit enum conversions Nathan Chancellor
2018-09-25 10:58 ` Linus Walleij
2018-09-25 16:14   ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-09-25 16:23     ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-10-25 21:04       ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-31 13:33         ` Linus Walleij
2018-11-01  0:03           ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-11-01 11:46             ` David Laight [this message]
2018-11-09  9:29             ` Linus Walleij
2018-11-09 15:21               ` Nathan Chancellor

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