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SubjectRe: Undo aic7xxx changes
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Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> writes:

|> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:46:37PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
|> > On Fri, 9 May 2003 15:27:57 +0200
|> > Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote:
|> >
|> > > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 03:02:07PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
|> > >
|> > > > I cannot say which version of the driver it was, the only thing I can tell
|> > > > you is that the archive was called aic79xx-linux-2.4-20030410-tar.gz.
|> > >
|> > > That's really interesting, because I got the bug since around this version
|> > > (20030417 IIRC), and it locked up only on SMP, sometimes during boot, or
|> > > during heavy disk accesses caused by "updatedb" and "make -j dep". It's
|> > > fixed in 20030502 from http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
|> >
|> > I tried to merge the latest aic archive into 2.4.21-rc2, besides the "usual"
|> > signed/unsigned warnings I got this one:
|> >
|> > aic7xxx_osm.c: In function `ahc_linux_map_seg':
|> > aic7xxx_osm.c:770: warning: integer constant is too large for "long" type
|>
|> Good catch, but in fact, it's more this line which worries me :
|>
|> 758: if ((addr ^ (addr + len - 1)) & ~0xFFFFFFFF) {
|>
|> I don't see how ~0xFFFFFFFF can be non-null on 32 bits archs

It will always be zero even on 64 bit archs, because ~0xFFFFFFFF is of
type unsigned int. The context doesn't matter.

Andreas.

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