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From: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ath5k: use bit shift operators for cache line size
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:13:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6c5339f0908121013v4316cfdbsf4e274217555dbe9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250096221-11000-4-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com>

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Luis R.
Rodriguez<lrodriguez@atheros.com> wrote:
> This matches ath9k, providing consistency when reading both drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
> index 63c2b57..2b3cf39 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c
> @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ ath5k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
>                 * DMA to work so force a reasonable value here if it
>                 * comes up zero.
>                 */
> -               csz = L1_CACHE_BYTES / sizeof(u32);
> +               csz = L1_CACHE_BYTES >> 2;
>                pci_write_config_byte(pdev, PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, csz);

I'm not sure it's better, although the whole thing seems bogus to
me.  Is there really a modern machine where PCI cache line size should
only be four bytes?

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-12 16:56 [PATCH 0/3] ath: advance ath.ko with one more helper Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-12 16:56 ` [PATCH 1/3] ath: add common ath_rxbuf_alloc() and make ath9k use it Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-12 16:57 ` [PATCH 2/3] ath5k: use common ath.ko ath_rxbuf_alloc() Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-12 16:57 ` [PATCH 3/3] ath5k: use bit shift operators for cache line size Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-12 17:13   ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2009-08-12 17:32     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-12 17:50       ` Bob Copeland
2009-08-12 17:21 ` [PATCH 0/3] ath: advance ath.ko with one more helper Bob Copeland
2009-08-12 17:27   ` [ath5k-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-13  2:13     ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-08-13  2:59       ` Bob Copeland
2009-08-13  3:07       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-13 14:41         ` Nick Kossifidis

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