Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758831AbYB2LBk (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:01:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755710AbYB2LBa (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:01:30 -0500 Received: from mgw1.diku.dk ([130.225.96.91]:34554 "EHLO mgw1.diku.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755363AbYB2LB3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:01:29 -0500 Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:01:26 +0100 (CET) From: Julia Lawall To: Andrew Morton Cc: Mark Pearson , Karol Kozimor , corentincj@iksaif.net, sziwan@users.sourceforge.net, acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c: Correct use of ! and & In-Reply-To: <20080228215503.b942bb3c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <7C626792-02A6-4BE6-B5F2-D75899F3990C@hell.org.pl> <47C5ABFB.3050607@googlemail.com> <20080228215503.b942bb3c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1694 Lines: 63 On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:29:15 +0100 Mark Pearson wrote: > > > Karol Kozimor wrote: > > > On 26-02-2008, at 21:42, Julia Lawall wrote: > > >> if (invert) /* invert target value */ > > >> - led_out = !led_out & 0x1; > > >> + led_out = !(led_out & 0x1); > > >> > > >> if (!write_acpi_int(hotk->handle, ledname, led_out, NULL)) > > >> printk(KERN_WARNING "Asus ACPI: LED (%s) write failed\n", > > > > > > > > > IIRC we're just supposed to flip the last bit here, so the original code > > > is correct. > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > Seems an odd way of doing: > > > > led_out ^= 0x01; > > It does. > > > It this due to some optimisation? > > Surely not ;) > > That code has been there for many years. > > I changed the patch to this: > > --- a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c~drivers-acpi-asus_acpic-correct-use-of-and > +++ a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c > @@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ write_led(const char __user * buffer, un > (led_out) ? (hotk->status | ledmask) : (hotk->status & ~ledmask); > > if (invert) /* invert target value */ > - led_out = !led_out & 0x1; > + led_out = !led_out; I don't think this is the same: !(0110 & 0x01) = !0 = 1 !0110 = 0 led_out ^= 0x01; is also not the same: 0110 ^ 0x01 = 0111 Is it desired to keep the value and flip the last bit or just obtain the opposite of the last bit? julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/