lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2022]   [Dec]   [24]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c:52 exar_offset_to_sel_addr() warn: replace divide condition 'pin / 8' with 'pin >= 8'
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:30:39PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 05:19:27PM +0100, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >
> >
> > Lähetetty iPhonesta
> >
> > > Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> kirjoitti 23.12.2022 kello 11.54:
> > >
> > > tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> > > head: f9ff5644bcc04221bae56f922122f2b7f5d24d62
> > > commit: 5134272f9f3f71d4e1f3aa15cb09321af49b3646 gpio: exar: access MPIO registers on cascaded chips
> > > config: ia64-randconfig-m031-20221218
> > > compiler: ia64-linux-gcc (GCC) 12.1.0
> > >
> > > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag where applicable
> > > | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> > > | Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > smatch warnings:
> > > drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c:52 exar_offset_to_sel_addr() warn: replace divide condition 'pin / 8' with 'pin >= 8'
> > > drivers/gpio/gpio-exar.c:62 exar_offset_to_lvl_addr() warn: replace divide condition 'pin / 8' with 'pin >= 8'
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > I don’t think this is a good advice. If we want to limit that, we need
> > to check also upper limit. But. The GPIO framework does that. So,
> > changing / to >= is bogus.
>
>
> How is checking pin / 8 not mathematically equivalent to pin >= 8?
>
> I don't understand this code at all. The divide is inscrutable Is it
> storing something in in the lower 3 bits and something in bit 4? In
> that case it might be nicer to just check (pin & BIT(4)).
>

Or a macro which does:

#define GET_UPPER_BIT_THING(pin) ((pin >> 8) & 0xMASK)

regards,
dan carpenter

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2023-03-26 23:19    [W:0.041 / U:0.048 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site