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SubjectRe: READ/WRITE definitions in drivers/spi/spi-omap-100k.c
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hey, guys.
>
> I was modifying includes in a core header file and got duplicate macro
> definition warnings on READ / WRITE in drivers/spi/spi-omap-100k.c.
> Apparently that driver defines READ / WRITE as macros and assigns the
> opposite values to them from the usual READ / WRITE constants defined
> in include/linux/fs.h.
>
> I just skimmed through it and there doesn't seem to be any user of the
> macros. Can we *please* remove these? Please note that READ / WRITE
> defined in include/linux/fs.h is something which is widely used
> throughout the kernel and there are multiple interfaces which take
> those constants. Re-defining them in the other way around in a driver
> file can lead to subtle issues and just is a bad idea. In general,
> refraining from using generic symbols without any qualitification in
> low level drivers would be nice.

That seems like a good idea, but we better poke the people who wrote
the code and the SPI maintainer :-)

Yours,
Linus Walleij


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