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From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date:   Sat, 3 Aug 2019 12:12:46 +0900
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/bits.h: Add compile time sanity check of GENMASK inputs
To:     Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com>
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 12:03 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:

>
> BTW, v2 is already inconsistent.
> If you wanted GENMASK_INPUT_CHECK() to return 'unsigned long',,
> you would have to cast (low) > (high) as well:
>
>                (unsigned long)((low) > (high)), UL(0))))
>
> This is totally redundant, and weird.

I take back this comment.
You added (unsigned long) to the beginning of this macro.
So, the type is consistent, but I believe all casts should be removed.


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada