Re: [PATCH] lib/scatterlist: Add SG_CHAIN and SG_EMARK macros for LSB encodings

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Wed Feb 14 2018 - 11:03:59 EST


On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 10:28 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> +#define SG_CHAIN 0x01
> +#define SG_EMARK 0x02

Hello Anshuman,

As you probably know constants that do not have a suffix are of type int. Please
consider to add suffix "UL" to these constants to avoid that the compiler could
take an undesired decision when e.g. converting ~SG_CHAIN from int to unsigned
long.

Thanks,

Bart.