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Re: [PATCH 09/17] iwlwifi: EEPROM reading fix

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On Saturday 28 July 2007 00:24:42 Tomas Winkler wrote:
> On 7/27/07, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Friday 27 July 2007 11:26:33 Zhu Yi wrote:
> > >               if (!(r & 1)) {
> > >                       IWL_ERROR("Time out reading EEPROM[%d]", addr);
> > > -                     return -ETIMEDOUT;
> > > +                     rc = -ETIMEDOUT;
> > > +                     goto done;
> > >               }
> > >
> > >               e[addr / 2] = le16_to_cpu(r >> 16);
> >
> > Seems like you really want cpu_to_le16() here, as "r" should better
> > be CPU-endian when shifting it by >>.
> >
> > Though, I don't see enough code context here to judge if the
> > endianess conversion is correct at all or not.
> >
> This line is empirically correct.

No, you need cpu_to_le16 here, instead of le16_to_cpu.
I know that these generate the same code, but it makes
a difference for sparse.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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