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From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drivers/char/synclink_gt.c: chars don't have more than 8 bits
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:49:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EFB6B2.205@microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060826020123.GB4765@stusta.de>

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> The GNU C compiler (SVN version) spotted the following buggy code in 
> drivers/char/synclink_gt.c:
> ...
  > Since there are no bits 8 or 9 in a char this code is currently
> dead code.

Yes, that is a bug.

Status and data come in byte pairs, bits 9 and 8 are
referenced from the 16 bit combination.

The code is operating on individual bytes in the buffer,
so it should be bits 1 and 0 that are tested.

I will make a patch and post it.

Thanks,
Paul



  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-26  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-26  2:01 drivers/char/synclink_gt.c: chars don't have more than 8 bits Adrian Bunk
2006-08-26  2:49 ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2006-08-28 19:07 ` [PATCH] synclink_gt fix receive tty error handling Paul Fulghum

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