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Date:   Wed, 21 Aug 2019 22:40:38 +0530
From:   Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@codeaurora.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/49] ath11k: add ahb.c
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On 2019-08-21 15:10, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-08-21 at 14:59 +0530, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> 
>> > > +#define ATH11K_TX_RING_MASK_3 0x0
>> >
>> > You have a LOT of masks here that are 0, that seems odd?
>> 
>> We'll remove them.
> 
> I'm not sure you should just *remove* them, that might very well be
> valid and what you need here, I'm just saying it looks odd since you
> usually expect masks to, well, not really mask *everything*?

Right, we'll try to clean that up wherever possible.

> 
>> > > +inline u32 ath11k_ahb_read32(struct ath11k_base *ab, u32 offset)
>> > > +{
>> > > +	return ioread32(ab->mem + offset);
>> > > +}
>> > > +
>> > > +inline void ath11k_ahb_write32(struct ath11k_base *ab, u32 offset,
>> > > u32 value)
>> > > +{
>> > > +	iowrite32(value, ab->mem + offset);
>> > > +}
>> >
>> > Just "inline" doesn't seem to make that much sense? If it's only used
>> > here then I guess it should be static, otherwise not inline? Or maybe
>> > you want it to be inlined *in this file* but available out-of-line
>> > otherwise? I'm not sure that actually is guaranteed to work right in C?
>> 
>> Yes, these read/write functions are used from other files as well. May
>> be define them as static inline in ahb.c will be fine.
> 
> No, if they're static they cannot be used from other files, but if
> they're declared and used elsewhere they can't really be inline ...
> 
> You could declare them static inline in ahb.h I guess, instead.

My bad, I wanted to mean the same, moving those function to ahb.h as 
static inline.

Vasanth