On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 04:15:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:30:55 -0700 > Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> wrote: > > > DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST returns a bad result for negative dividends: > > DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(-2, 2) = 0 > > > > Most of the time this does not matter. However, in the hardware monitoring > > subsystem, it is sometimes used on integers which can be negative (such as > > temperatures). Introduce new macro IDIV_ROUND_CLOSEST which also supports > > negative dividends. > > > > Can't we just fix DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST? That will make it a bit slower > but it's not exactly a speed demon right now. And fixing > DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST() might just fix other bugs that we don't know about > yet. > Sure, fine with me. I'll submit a patch. Let's see who starts screaming.
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