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SubjectRE: [PATCH 2/8] farsync: Fix confusion about DMA address and buffer offset types
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Hi,
Thanks for the patches. I will apply them to the master copy of the source code here.


Regards


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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben@decadent.org.uk]
Sent: 21 December 2011 05:41
To: David Miller
Cc: Kevin Curtis; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] farsync: Fix confusion about DMA address and buffer offset types

On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 23:46 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:32:52 +0000
>
> > - dbg(DBG_RX, "In fst_rx_dma %lx %lx %d\n",
> > - (unsigned long) skb, (unsigned long) mem, len);
> > + dbg(DBG_RX, "In fst_rx_dma %x %x %d\n", (u32)skb, mem, len);
>
> This is more appropriately fixed by using "%p" instead of casting to a
> 32-bit int.

'skb' is the physical address of the data in the skb. Whereas 'mem' is the offset of the corresponding buffer in shared memory.

All completely clear, right? ;-)

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.
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