RE: [PATCH wireless-next 2/2] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: phy: fix an undefined bitwise shift behavior

From: Ping-Ke Shih
Date: Wed Nov 22 2023 - 19:43:49 EST




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> Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-next 2/2] rtlwifi: rtl8821ae: phy: fix an undefined bitwise shift behavior
>
> Perhaps, a better way to silence the warning is to just change
> _rtl8821ae_phy_calculate_bit_shift() to not return 32 bits? Do we
> really ever pass bitmask 0? No idea...
>

I think the bitmask should not 0, so just replace _rtl8821ae_phy_calculate_bit_shift()
by __ffs(bitmask). To be safer, callers can check bitmask is not 0 before calling.

Ping-Ke