Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] staging: android: binder: fix BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADSdeclaration
From: Arve Hjønnevåg
Date: Tue Apr 09 2013 - 19:53:19 EST
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Serban Constantinescu
<serban.constantinescu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This change will fix the BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADS ioctl to use __s32
> instead of size_t for setting the max threads. Thus using the same
> handler for 32 and 64bit kernels.
>
> This value is stored internally in struct binder_proc as an int and
> is set to 15 on open_binder() in the libbinder API (thus no need for
> a 64bit size_t on 64bit platforms).
>
Why switch to a signed type?
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