linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix idiocy in asd_init_lseq

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Message-ID: <20060925171634.69667.qmail@web31809.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:16:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@...oo.com>
To:	dougg@...que.net, Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix idiocy in asd_init_lseq_mdp()

--- Douglas Gilbert <dougg@...que.net> wrote:
> Al Viro wrote:
> > To whoever had written that code:
> > 
> > a) priority of >> is higher than that of &
> > b) priority of typecast is higher than that of any binary operator
> > c) learn the fscking C
[...]
> BTW Luben was pointing out that the call you patched
> and the following call can be combined into a less
> trouble prone asd_write_reg_dword() call.

More than that -- I looked at the history of that
file/line and the code as I had written it _never_ had
that broken cast and shift mess.

"Someone" changed that after I submitted the code to lkml/lsml.

    Luben

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