linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/headers] x86: fix "__udivdi3" [drivers/scsi/aha1542.ko] undefined

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Date:	Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:36:06 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/headers] x86: fix "__udivdi3"
	[drivers/scsi/aha1542.ko] undefined


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

> James Bottomley wrote:
>> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:14 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> James Bottomley wrote:
>>>
>>> #define isa_virt_to_bus(x) ((unsigned int)virt_to_phys(x))
>>>
>>> ... if we're going to do that.
>>
>> Actually, it probably wants to become a static inline ... that way the
>> compiler can always verify the promotion and truncation is legal
>> regardless of whether an actual user is compiled or not.
>>
>
> Yes, that's the right thing to do.  I'll fix it up and commit a patch.

Yeah, sure - nevertheless i committed the obvious build fix first.

And as i said, the whole pointer magic construct in aha1542 is a borderline
bug, and if anything like that pops up in non-utter-legacy code it should
be cleaned up anyway.

	Ingo
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