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Date:   Wed, 9 Mar 2022 13:27:12 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Ming Qian' <ming.qian@....com>,
        "mchehab@...nel.org" <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        "shawnguo@...nel.org" <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] media: amphion: fix some error related with undefined
 reference to __divdi3

From: Ming Qian
> Sent: 09 March 2022 05:02
...
> 3. use 'val >> 1' instead of ' val / 2'

The compiler should do that anyway.

Especially for unsigned values.
And it has the wrong (different) rounding for negative values.

	David

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