netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/8] farsync: Fix confusion about DMA address and buffer offset types

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Date:	Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:41:13 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	kevin.curtis@...site.co.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.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@...adent.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.

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

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