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

From: Su Hui
Date: Wed Nov 22 2023 - 20:35:10 EST


On 2023/11/23 08:41, Ping-Ke Shih wrote:

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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.
Thanks for your great suggestion!
I will send v2 soon.

Su Hui