linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] MIPS: Avoid DIVU in `__div64

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Message-ID: <20210422075645.GA5996@alpha.franken.de>
Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 09:56:45 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
Cc:     "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...ngson.cn>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] MIPS: Avoid DIVU in `__div64_32' is result would be
 zero

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 06:16:18PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> 
> > > We already check the high part of the divident against zero to avoid the 
> > 
> > nit-picking: s/divident/dividend/
> 
>  Umm, I find this embarassing (and I hesitated reaching for a dictionary 
> to double-check the spelling!).  Indeed why would this be different from 
> subtrahend or minuend?
> 
>  Thomas, as this mistake has spread across three out of these patches,
> both in change descriptions and actual code, would you mind dropping the 
> series from mips-next altogether and I'll respin the series with all 
> these issues corrected?

I'm sorry, but I don't rebase mips-next and the patches have been pushed
out before I received this mail.

Thomas.

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