+ drivers-edac-i3000-document-type-promotion.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     drivers/edac/i3000: document type promotion
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     drivers-edac-i3000-document-type-promotion.patch

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Subject: drivers/edac/i3000: document type promotion
From: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@xxxxxxxxxx>

By popular request, add a comment documenting the implicit type promotion
here.

Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff -puN drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c~drivers-edac-i3000-document-type-promotion drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c
--- a/drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c~drivers-edac-i3000-document-type-promotion
+++ a/drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@
 				 */
 #define I3000_DEAP_GRAIN 		(1 << 7)
 
+/*
+ * Helper functions to decode the DEAP/EDEAP hardware registers.
+ *
+ * The type promotion here is deliberate; we're deriving an
+ * unsigned long pfn and offset from hardware regs which are u8/u32.
+ */
+
 static inline unsigned long deap_pfn(u8 edeap, u32 deap)
 {
 	deap >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from juhlenko@xxxxxxxxxx are

drivers-edac-i3000-code-tidying.patch
drivers-edac-i3000-replace-macros-with-functions.patch
drivers-edac-i3000-64bit-build.patch
drivers-edac-i3000-missing-init-code.patch
drivers-edac-i3000-document-type-promotion.patch

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