Re: [PATCH v3] Input: mousedev - fix implicit conversion warning

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Mon May 29 2017 - 15:23:32 EST


On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:07:46AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> If you look at the code of this fucntion we really use ps2_data as
> signed in calculations, and this change would break that. While making
> ps2_data u8 might be beneficial we'd need to rework mousedev_packet() to
> use signed temporaries for dx, dy and dz before stufifng them into
> ps2_data.

Is your recommendation then to stick with the simple cast as in V1 of
this patch, or stick with u8 and rework mousedev_packet()?