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Message-ID: <4CA0AF77.1080105@laptop.org>
Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:51:35 -0400
From:	"Richard A. Smith" <richard@...top.org>
To:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>
CC:	cbou@...l.ru, dwmw2@...radead.org, dilinger@...ued.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, harvey.harrison@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] olpc_battery: Fix endian neutral breakage for s16
 values

On 09/25/2010 02:19 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> From: Richard A. Smith<richard@...top.org>
>
> When the driver was updated to be endian neutral (8e9c7716c)
> the signed part of the s16 values was lost.  This is because be16_to_cpu()
> returns a signed value.  This patch casts the values back to a s16 number
> prior to the the implicit cast up to an int.

Seems the comment has a error.  Should be 'returns an unsigned' rather 
than signed.  Other than that it looks good.

-- 
Richard A. Smith  <richard@...top.org>
One Laptop per Child
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