On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Doug Smythies <dsmyth...@telus.net> wrote: > > On 2104.06.11 07:08 Stratos Karafotis wrote: >> On 11/06/2014 04:41 μμ, Doug Smythies wrote: >> >> No. >> >> The intent was only ever to round properly the pseudo floating point result >> of the divide. >> It was much more important (ugh, well 4 times more) when FRACBITS was still >> 6, which also got changed to 8 in a recent patch. >> > > Are you sure? > > Yes. > >> This rounding was very recently added. >> As far as I can understand, I don't see the meaning of this rounding, as is. >> Even if FRAC_BITS was 6, I think it would have almost no improvement in >> calculations. > > Note: I had not seen this e-mail when I wrote a few minutes ago: > > You may be correct. > If Dirk agrees, I will re-analyse the entire driver for rounding effects soon.
Well, can you please do it if that's not a problem? Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
