Re: Raylink/WebGear testing - ray_cs.c iomem bug?

From: David S. Miller
Date: Wed Oct 06 2004 - 13:16:37 EST


On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:06:45 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > NUMBER_OF_CCS is 64, and the difference between CCS_BASE and RCS_BASE
> > is 0x400 so this really doesn't account for anything.
>
> It does, though: as I noted in my second mail (after trying to figure it
> out some more) the size of both ccs and rcs is 16 bytes, so when you
> offset by 64, so the difference between RCS_BASE and CCS_BASE ends up
> being exactly "NUMBER_OF_CCS*sizeof(struct ccs/rcs)", which explains how
> the base is the same, and the _index_ ends up being the one that selects
> between the two.

Right, that makes perfect sense. I missed how it was doing structure
pointer arithmetic when offsetting by the index.
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