linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] qlogicpti: add missing parentheses

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Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:51:49 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
To:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qlogicpti: add missing parentheses

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 00:38 +0100, Roel Kluin wrote:
> `+' has a higher precedence than `?' so the condition always
> evaluates to true and this is preprocessed to `7*((ql) - 1)'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> This one must be right, I think.

It looks plausible ... but it will increase the mailbox segment length
by 4 ... someone needs to verify that this increase will actually work
and won't run off the end of the mailbox table.

James


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