linux-kernel - Re: ADT746X: logical-bitwise & confusion in set_max_duty_at

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Date:	Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:13:19 -0700
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	Roel Kluin <12o3l@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Colin Leroy <colin@...ino.net>
Subject: Re: ADT746X: logical-bitwise & confusion in set_max_duty_at_crit()

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:59:43AM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:

> > The & 0xff here is bogus anyway; temp is only ever used as an u8,
> > so just declare it as that, or do proper overflow/underflow checking
> > on it.  The patch will need testing on hardware too, since it changes
> > behaviour (it should be a bugfix, but who knows).
> 
> Maybe someone can test this?

I did.  No regressions observed and it fixes that bug as well.  Sorry I
didn't catch it earlier... :/

Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...ibm.com>

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