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Re: [PATCH] ath5k: fix endianness of bitwise ops when installing mic

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:30:01PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> >  			key_v[0] = rxmic[0];
> > -			key_v[1] = (txmic[0] >> 16) & 0xffff;
> > +			key_v[1] = cpu_to_le32(le32_to_cpu(txmic[0]) >> 16);
> 
> Is it certain that txmic[0] will not sign extend with the >> 16 operation? Is
> that why you dropped the mask with 0xffff?

Yeah, I added the mask in the first place, but dropped it here because 
txmic is an __le32, and as far as I can tell all __le types are also 
unsigned, so it shouldn't sign extend.

I'm not a language lawyer though so if anyone knows better, chime in
(I just wrote a simple C program to convince myself).

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com

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