Re: [PATCH 2.6] cciss typo fix

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Sat Jan 08 2005 - 04:45:06 EST


On Fri, Jan 07 2005, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 17:01 -0600, mike.miller@xxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [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

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