Re: [git patches] ide update

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 17:16:10 EST




On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> 3 obvious fixes + support for 2 new controllers
> (just new PCI IDs).

Btw, things like this:

+#define IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY HZ/20 /* default delay for ZIP 100 (50ms) */

are just bugs waiting to happen.

Hint: see what happens when you do something like this:

high_byte = IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY >> 8;
low_byte = (unsigned char) IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY;

and watch in amazement how you get entirely the wrong value if HZ is 1000.

Try it out..

Linus
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