From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: linux-next: triage for March 18, 2012 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:56:53 -0400 Message-ID: <184427.1332194213@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <161084.1332177826@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1121.1332169437@redhat.com> <20120318235114.GA30497@thor.bakeyournoodle.com> <20120318184105.GC2095@windriver.com> <9942.1332170491@redhat.com> <8010.1332186104@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1332194213_2016P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([198.82.162.213]:34848 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756559Ab2CSV6E (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:58:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:41:44 -0000." <8010.1332186104@redhat.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: David Howells Cc: Tony Breeds , Paul Gortmaker , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1332194213_2016P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:41:44 -0000, David Howells said: > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > > Umm.. it's not clear to *me* that it's intended to be a negative 16 bit? Or > > am I just missing context not present in the patch? > > > > (I have no idea if the rest of the patch is OK or not, but that comment > > didn't give me warm fuzzies....) > The patch permits a 64-bit hosted assembler to represent a large 32-bit > unsigned integer (such as 0xfffffff1) as a negative integer where the > instruction being assembled has a signed immediate operand. Oh, I understood the gist of the patch. My question was specifically regarding the comment saying: "0xffffe000 is clearly intended to be a negative 16-bit value" I'd guess it was a negative *32* bit value, unless there's context constraining it to 16.... --==_Exmh_1332194213_2016P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iQIVAwUBT2erpQdmEQWDXROgAQL02A//Q7sZVwekabyqskRqnFU/4cFZEn6bEzaw JutLQ6EPwPdJtms1aq5yyzbPX8mIbWO+3QMwqt5sqSTthTKch1/8+oQJRHg5AS/a GxrVEMVDmQZXsBugARk6HEpPXIcdodH0UgaxLXMt3JXN7qdbeNa7+Q+Hzd+Gm7xr A2H0S1O1zSvRHYGroDUDUaoUyE77C2W7tEOIvYjaSjIrVpmLgqCtXc1lEw+vQGVa wn+2FlDm9qtxjLfeEj2jvXciUyu32cAcLGIMI03HpC34SjxUCFqimyfPxj9bbI6e 3SybbJMm1d426y0xkT4gUx+Xq6HYGoyTbbizf9p/YOO+Fyx0pt0QFczGufIRGyBD xqxQ2rZv/SzhfQScx104iFkcKzdKN/4hjPPDv9Q/Xxz52LSHMvNf6pRr68kEcHFc 6gJXmsa/OUvkh3b0Ad/mx/Bzgpl71DfX3s1KvTZFcM+wLHvx+nHiqhuCLw5T0WSE Nj0uoxaEjqpsw4M7XDBx2ors3KDza0KggEoqSLPF72NqYWpjRp7amjxIi0oWGdM4 PbtVW3OgrBUYzaaNVj6VaDa95r9ppaKv09ipRa/JUY+IkDVb99DJq1JmA9E4iYwd I7RQY1ce0Ix3ysg0fH4mWVBtLIAIjoIXeuxtmK3EtSdvPNW3wmo4U2LFcQ8g7K2f lgU2zrksYTQ= =EKTq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1332194213_2016P--