Re: [PATCH 2.6] cciss typo fix

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Fri, Jan 07 2005, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com]
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 17:01 -0600, mike.miller@hp.com wrote:
> > > -		*total_size = be32_to_cpu(*((__be32 *) 
> > &buf->total_size[0]))+1;
> > > -		*block_size = be32_to_cpu(*((__be32 *) 
> > &buf->block_size[0]));
> > > +		*total_size = be32_to_cpu(*((__u32 *) 
> > &buf->total_size[0]))+1;
> > > +		*block_size = be32_to_cpu(*((__u32 *) 
> > &buf->block_size[0]));
> > 
> > I don't think that's a typo.  It was introduced by this patch:
> > 
> > ChangeSet 1.1988.24.79 2004/10/06 07:55:02 viro@www.linux.org.uk
> >   [PATCH] cciss endianness and iomem annotations
> >  
> > The idea being that BE and LE numbers should be annotated differently,
> > so the __be32 annotations look correct to me.  I think sparse 
> > will warn
> > if you make this change.
> 
> Hmmm, SuSE complained that __be32 was not defined in the kernel. Any
> other thoughts, anyone?

Hmm odd, no one should have complained, it should just have been added
to the compat header.

-- 
Jens Axboe