Re: [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private()

[Rob Jones]

On 01/09/14 16:36, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Rob Jones wrote:
>
> >   void *__seq_open_private(struct file *f, const struct seq_operations *ops,
> > -		int psize)
> > +		size_t psize)
>
> <sarcasm>
> It is a horrible limitation to impose, indeed.  Why, a lousy
> 2 gigabytes per line in procfs file - that's intolerable...
> </sarcasm>

<shrug>

Consistency?

kmalloc() expects a size_t and I haven't heard anyone whingeing about that.

Ultimately, this function calls kmalloc().

>

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