Re: [PATCHv2 00/11]Get rid of all the old macro DMA_nBIT_MASK and use DMA_BIT_MASK(n) instead

Yang Hongyang wrote:

v1->v2:fix s/micro/macro typo and keep the old defines
            of DMA_nBIT_MASK
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Replace all DMA_nBIT_MASK macro with the new DMA_BIT_MASK(n) macro

01:Replace all DMA_64BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(64)
02:Replace all DMA_48BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(48)
03:Replace all DMA_40BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(40)
04:Replace all DMA_39BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(39)
05:Replace all DMA_35BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(35)
06:Replace all DMA_32BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(32)
07:Replace all DMA_31BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(31)
08:Replace all DMA_30BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(30)
09:Replace all DMA_28BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(28)
10:Replace all DMA_24BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(24)
11:Update the old macro DMA_nBIT_MASK related documentations

Shouldn't you organize the patch series per subsystem, not per old
macro?  And then Cc the respective maintainers?

As it stands, the patches cannot be routed through the normal channels;
yet there is no fundamental reason to handle these patches differently
from normal patches.
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Stefan Richter
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