Re: [git-pull -tip] x86: cleanup patches 20090322

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Mon Mar 23 2009 - 17:10:28 EST


On Monday 23 March 2009 20:15:06 Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:45 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Monday 23 March 2009 07:22:56 Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > x86: e820.h fix various signedness issues in setup.c and e820.c
> >
> > Wouldn't fixing the users be better than changing the header? Esp. since
> > it could well now cause similar warnings in userspace programs.
...
> Is this OK, or should I go more further:
>
> From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:13:01 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: e820 fix various signedness issues in setup.c and e820.c
>
> Impact: cleanup
>
> This fixed various signedness issues in setup.c and e820.c:
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:455:53: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)

This looks fine (assuming it fixes the warnings).

In future it would be nice to explicitly mention that these are "sparse"
warnings, not actual "signedness issues" ("Impact: cleanup" implies that,
but the subject makes it sound like there's a pressing problem).

Thanks,
Rusty.
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