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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/headers] x86: fix "__udivdi3"	[drivers/scsi/aha1542.ko] undefined
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:51:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4995F979.9040304@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234560979.3252.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>

James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:14 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> James Bottomley wrote:
>>
>> #define isa_virt_to_bus(x) ((unsigned int)virt_to_phys(x))
>>
>> ... if we're going to do that.
> 
> Actually, it probably wants to become a static inline ... that way the
> compiler can always verify the promotion and truncation is legal
> regardless of whether an actual user is compiled or not.
> 

Yes, that's the right thing to do.  I'll fix it up and commit a patch.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-13 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <tip-bf33a70a73876b163d62612e9567cbac6604ba7e@kernel.org>
2009-02-13 20:14 ` [tip:x86/headers] x86: fix "__udivdi3" [drivers/scsi/aha1542.ko] undefined H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-13 21:36   ` James Bottomley
2009-02-13 22:51     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-02-14  7:36       ` Ingo Molnar

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