Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] aacraid: silence two GCC warnings

[Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>]

On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 10:40 +0000, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-09 at 21:09 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/src.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/src.c
> > @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ static int aac_src_deliver_message(struct fib *fib)
> >  		fib->hw_fib_va->header.StructType = FIB_MAGIC2;
> >  		fib->hw_fib_va->header.SenderFibAddress = (u32)address;
> >  		fib->hw_fib_va->header.u.TimeStamp = 0;
> > -		BUG_ON((u32)(address >> 32) != 0L);
> > +		BUG_ON(((u64)address >> 32) != 0UL);
> 
> Actually, this isn't the right way to do this.  The correct way would be
> address >> 16 >> 16, but no-one is expected to remember this, so we have
> it macroised in kernel.h as upper_32_bits().
> 
> So this should become
> 
> BUG_ON(upper_32_bits(address) != 0L);

Thanks. I hadn't yet stumbled onto that macro.

> and a similar change for the below.

I hope to send an updated patch shortly.


Paul Bolle