Re: [PATCH]: warrning fix: unsigned->signed

From: Oleg Verych
Date: Tue Feb 06 2007 - 17:56:44 EST


> From: Andrew Morton
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
> Subject: Re: [PATCH]: warrning fix: unsigned->signed
> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:09:36 -0800
Mail-Followup-To: LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Oleg Verych <olecom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Tomasz Kvarsin" <kvarsin@xxxxxxxxx>, viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, axboe@xxxxxxxxx

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:39:45 +0300
> "Tomasz Kvarsin" <kvarsin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> While compiling my code, I always get bunch of warrning from headers,
>> here is fix for them:
>> __getblk is alawys called with unsigned argument,
>> but it takes signed, the same story with __bread,__breadahead and so on.
>
> The patch seems OK, but I'm curious to know why you're seeing this warning
> and nobody else is. Are you using a compiler other than gcc? If gcc,
> which version? Did you add any new compiler options?

Andrew, i think it's due to

,-*- quote -*-
| Friends don't let friends use "-W". [0]
`-*-

I get many of them, when compiling external modules with `-Wall', of
course ;)

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