drivers/edac/i3000: document type promotion
By popular request, add a comment documenting the implicit type promotion
here.
Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c b/drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c
index b813f35..5d42928 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/i3000_edac.c
@@ -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;