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From: "Richard A. Smith" <richard@laptop.org>
To: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: cbou@mail.ru, dwmw2@infradead.org, dilinger@queued.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, harvey.harrison@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] olpc_battery: Fix endian neutral breakage for s16 values
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:51:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA0AF77.1080105@laptop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100925181927.2C3389D401B@zog.reactivated.net>

On 09/25/2010 02:19 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> From: Richard A. Smith<richard@laptop.org>
>
> When the driver was updated to be endian neutral (8e9c7716c)
> the signed part of the s16 values was lost.  This is because be16_to_cpu()
> returns a signed value.  This patch casts the values back to a s16 number
> prior to the the implicit cast up to an int.

Seems the comment has a error.  Should be 'returns an unsigned' rather 
than signed.  Other than that it looks good.

-- 
Richard A. Smith  <richard@laptop.org>
One Laptop per Child

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-27 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-25 18:19 [PATCH v2] olpc_battery: Fix endian neutral breakage for s16 values Daniel Drake
2010-09-27 14:51 ` Richard A. Smith [this message]
2010-09-28 11:16   ` Anton Vorontsov

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