On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 14:05 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > @@ -589,16 +589,15 @@ isdn_ppp_ioctl(int min, struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) > > break; > > case PPPIOCGCOMPRESSORS: > > { > > - unsigned long protos[8] = {0,}; > > + DECLARE_BITMAP(protos, BITS_PER_LONG * 8) = { 0, }; > > struct isdn_ppp_compressor *ipc = ipc_head; > > + > > while (ipc) { > > - j = ipc->num / (sizeof(long) * 8); > > - i = ipc->num % (sizeof(long) * 8); > > - if (j < 8) > > - protos[j] |= (0x1 << i); > > + if (ipc->num < BITS_PER_LONG * 8) > > + set_bit(ipc->num, protos); > > ipc = ipc->next; > > } > > - if ((r = set_arg(argp, protos, 8 * sizeof(long)))) > > + if ((r = set_arg(argp, protos, sizeof(protos)))) > > This changes the bit endianess. How does it do that? include/linux/bitops.h:#define BIT_MASK(nr) (1UL << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG)) include/linux/bitops.h:#define BIT_WORD(nr) ((nr) / BITS_PER_LONG) include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h:static inline void set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr) include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h-{ include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h- unsigned long mask = BIT_MASK(nr); include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h- unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *)addr) + BIT_WORD(nr); include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h- unsigned long flags; include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h- include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h- _atomic_spin_lock_irqsave(p, flags); include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h- *p |= mask; include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h- _atomic_spin_unlock_irqrestore(p, flags); include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h-} -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html