Re: [PATCH 1/1] aacraid: don't assign cpu_to_le32(int) to u8

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:58:12AM -0500, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> Good point, thanks. The intent of the management applications
> utilization of this AIF report is to observe the LSB of the value of
> integer value in BlinkLED. The actions of the cpu_to_le32 actually
> breaks this and reports the wrong content in swapped architectures.
> 
> This attached follow-up patch is against current scsi-misc-2.6 *after*
> the application of the 'don't assign cpu_to_le32(constant) to u8' patch
> submitted by Stephen Rothwell which has already been taken by the -mm
> tree. Inspection of other areas of the aacraid driver came up blank for
> similar style bugs.

Did anyone run the driver through sparse to see if we have more issues like
this?

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