Looks great to me! On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 02:33:43 +0000, Al Viro wrote: > The following primitives are defined in linux/bitfield.h: > > * u32 le32_get_bits(__le32 val, u32 field) extracts the contents of the > bitfield specified by @field in little-endian 32bit value @val and > converts it to host-endian. > > * void le32p_replace_bits(__le32 *p, u32 v, u32 field) replaces > the contents of the bitfield specified by @field in little-endian > 32bit object pointet to by *p with the value of @v. New value is > given in host-endian and stored as little-endian. > > * __le32 le32_replace_bits(__le32 old, u32 v, u32 field) is equivalent to > ({__le32 tmp = old; le32p_replace_bits(&old, v, field); tmp;}) > In other words, instead of modifying an object in memory, it takes > the initial value and returns the modified one.
the current macros take filed/mask as first param, not sure if it's worth maintaining the order