linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/ioapic: Fix wrong pointers in ioapic_setup

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Message-Id: <1465344439-3373-1-git-send-email-rui.y.wang@intel.com>
Date:	Wed,  8 Jun 2016 08:07:19 +0800
From:	Rui Wang <rui.y.wang@...el.com>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:	rjw@...ysocki.net, tony.luck@...el.com, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rui.y.wang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/ioapic: Fix wrong pointers in ioapic_setup_resources()

On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 5:17 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016, Rui Wang wrote:
> > Also simplify the function by removing the redundant 'num' variable.

> Please don't do that. This makes the patch hard to read. Split this into a
> minimal bugfix, which can be backported and a cleanup patch which gets rid of
> the extra variable.
 
> > -		ioapics[i].iomem_res = res;
> > +		ioapics[i].iomem_res = &res[i];
>
> If I read the patch correctly, then this is the fix. Right? So please make it
> a one liner and send a cleanup patch seperately.

Hi Thomas,

Yes exactly. I'll send a v2.

Thanks
Rui