Re: [PATCH v3] include/linux/skbuff.h: using '(__u16) ~0U' insteadof '~0U'

[David Miller]

From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:54:22 +0800

> 
> Both 'transport_header' and 'mac_header' are __u16, which are
> never equal to '~0U'.
> 
> So need use '(__u16) ~0U' instead of '~0U'.
> 
> The related warning (with EXTRA_CFLAGS=-W ARCH=m68k for allmodconfig)
>   include/linux/skbuff.h:1587:2: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
>   ...
> 
> Use meaningful macro instead of hard code number, and better to
> initialize 'skb->transport_header' in __alloc_skb_head(), too.
> 
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Your patch doesn't apply to the tree because this has been fixed already
for several days by using "typeof(x) ~0U"
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