Re: [PATCH] cbus-retu-wdt: Fix bitfield access

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On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 03:21:29PM +0100, Michael Büsch wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 11:43 +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote: 
> > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 05:11:53PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > An unsigned int pointer must not be casted to an unsigned
> > > long pointer before use. Convert the bitfield to unsigned long
> > > to fix this.
> > > Also use clear_bit() in the release path.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This looks ok, I'm just wondering if the change on test_and_set_bit()
> > from bit 1 to bit 0 should be on this patch. I guess not.
> 
> Uh, well. If that's worth doing a separate patch, I'll do it.
> It doesn't actually really matter if we use bit 0, 1 or ... for this.
> I just thought it was weird to use the second bit.

yeah, I didn't read the whole code before making the comment, if you're
sure no-one is using bit 0, then go for it. Having it separate, would
help on bisecting should things go wrong.

-- 
balbi
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