Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: change len type from signed to unsigned type
From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Thu Nov 15 2018 - 08:34:21 EST
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:07:10 -0500
Huijin Park <huijin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: "huijin.park" <huijin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch casts the "len" parameter to an unsigned int.
Hm, that's not really what this patch actually. Actually it avoids the
cast from an int to an unsigned int.
> The callers of erase_write() pass the "len" parameter as unsigned int.
That's the important part here. Callers of erase_write() always pass an
unsigned int, so what you're trying to do here is avoid a cast to an
int.
>
> Signed-off-by: huijin.park <huijin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
You should have a changelog here.
> drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c
> index a5b1933..b2d5ed1 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ struct mtdblk_dev {
> */
>
> static int erase_write (struct mtd_info *mtd, unsigned long pos,
> - int len, const char *buf)
> + unsigned int len, const char *buf)
> {
> struct erase_info erase;
> size_t retlen;