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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: Mark Salyzyn <mark_salyzyn@xyratex.com>
Cc: santoshprasadnayak@gmail.com, lindar_liu <lindar_liu@usish.com>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Jack Wang <jack_wang@usish.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] pm8001: fix endian issue with code optimization.
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:58:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5785A9.2040707@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00F74E64-A5EC-4DF8-A347-2D8BC5659638@xyratex.com>



Am 07.03.2012 16:11, schrieb Mark Salyzyn:
> One more NAK:
> 
>> @@ -3497,7 +3499,7 @@ static int mpi_hw_event(struct pm8001_hba_info *pm8001_ha, void* piomb)
>> static void process_one_iomb(struct pm8001_hba_info *pm8001_ha, void *piomb)
>> {
>> 	u32 pHeader = (u32)*(u32 *)piomb;
>> -	u8 opc = (u8)((le32_to_cpu(pHeader)) & 0xFFF);
>> +	u8 opc = (u8)(pHeader & 0xFFF);
>>
>> 	PM8001_MSG_DBG(pm8001_ha, pm8001_printk("process_one_iomb:"));
> 
> The swap is necessary. Should be:
> 
> 	__le32 pHeader = (__le32)*(__le32 *)piomb;
> 
> instead ...
> 

hi,

would it help to make piomb __le32 instead of void ?

Also i do not understand what want to gain from 0xFFF
Doing (u8) is effectively doing & 0xFF.

re,
 wh




  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-26 14:56 [PATCH] [SCSI] pm8001: fix endian issue with code optimization santoshprasadnayak
2012-02-27  4:51 ` Jack Wang
2012-03-07 14:58   ` Mark Salyzyn
2012-03-07 15:11     ` Mark Salyzyn
2012-03-07 15:34       ` santosh prasad nayak
2012-03-07 15:58       ` walter harms [this message]
2012-03-07 16:10         ` Mark Salyzyn
2012-03-07 17:36           ` santosh prasad nayak
2012-03-07 17:25             ` Mark Salyzyn
2012-03-07 17:37             ` Dan Carpenter

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