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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ar9170: implement frequency calibration for one-stage/openfw
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:02:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090918170211.8acce2cc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200909032025.31260.chunkeey@googlemail.com>

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:25:31 +0200
Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> wrote:

> This patch ports some code from the vendor driver, which is
> supposed to upload the right calibration values for the
> chosen frequency.
> 
> In theory, this should give a better range and throughput
> for all users with the open, or one-stage firmware.
> 
> ...
>
> +		for (i = 0; i < 76; i++) {
> +			u32 phy_data;
> +			u8 tmp;
> +
> +			if (i < 25) {
> +				tmp = ar9170_interpolate_val(i, &pwrs[0][0],
> +							     &vpds[0][0]);
> +			} else {
> +				tmp = ar9170_interpolate_val(i - 12,
> +							     &pwrs[1][0],
> +							     &vpds[1][0]);
> +			}
> +
> +			phy_data |= tmp << ((i & 3) << 3);

Clearly buggy and the compiler warns.  The value of phy_data is unknown
here.

How did this get all the way into mainline?


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-19  0:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03 18:25 [PATCH] ar9170: implement frequency calibration for one-stage/openfw Christian Lamparter
2009-09-19  0:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-09-19 12:21   ` Joerg Albert
2009-09-28 18:41     ` John W. Linville
2009-09-28 19:45       ` Christian Lamparter
2009-09-28 19:50         ` John W. Linville

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