Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:14:29 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [GIT] Sparc | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:43:52 -0800
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:39 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: >> >> 5) Fix iommu-common code so it doesn't emit rediculous warnings >> on some architectures, particularly ARM. > > Heh. So looking at that patch, I can't but help to react that this: > > #define IOMMU_ERROR_CODE (~(unsigned long) 0) > > is still pretty ridiculous. Maybe just (-1ul), or for those people > who don't understand C unsigned long arithmetic and think that a > negative unsigned long looks odd, (~0ul)?
Yeah I struggled with this, believe it or not.
The expression causing the problem was (~(dma_addr_t) 0) (AKA DMA_ERROR_CODE) being used as the return value.
So I just replicated that expression. A neuron did fire saying "hey pinhead, why not just use ~0UL" but I did not listen to the little voice in my head this time.
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