[PATCH] drivers edac i3000 document type promotion

[dougthompson]

From: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

By popular request, add a comment documenting the implicit type
promotion here.

Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxx?
---
 i3000_edac.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

Index: linux/drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c	2008-01-14 15:16:11.137167678 -0800
+++ linux/drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c	2008-01-14 15:16:13.387855416 -0800
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@
 				 */
 #define I3000_DEAP_GRAIN 		(1 << 7)
 
+/*
+ * Helper functions to decode the DEAP/EDEAP hardware registers.
+ *
+ * The type promotion here is deliberate; we're deriving an
+ * unsigned long pfn and offset from hardware regs which are u8/u32.
+ */
+
 static inline unsigned long deap_pfn(u8 edeap, u32 deap)
 {
 	deap >>= PAGE_SHIFT;

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