Re: [PATCH 2/8] farsync: Fix confusion about DMA address and bufferoffset types

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Wed Dec 21 2011 - 00:41:31 EST


On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 23:46 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:32:52 +0000
>
> > - dbg(DBG_RX, "In fst_rx_dma %lx %lx %d\n",
> > - (unsigned long) skb, (unsigned long) mem, len);
> > + dbg(DBG_RX, "In fst_rx_dma %x %x %d\n", (u32)skb, mem, len);
>
> This is more appropriately fixed by using "%p" instead of casting
> to a 32-bit int.

'skb' is the physical address of the data in the skb. Whereas 'mem' is
the offset of the corresponding buffer in shared memory.

All completely clear, right? ;-)

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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