linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] olpc_battery: Fix endian neutral breakage for s16 values

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Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:16:07 +0400
From:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>
To:	"Richard A. Smith" <richard@...top.org>
Cc:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...top.org>, 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 Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:51:35AM -0400, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> 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.

Fixed and applied w/ Cc: <stable@...nel.org>, thanks!

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