Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] tty/vt: Avoid passing struct console_font_op to con_font_copy()

[Peilin Ye]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 11:10:44AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> I'm not sure switching from int to unsigned just here makes much sense.
> All the console code is still using int con to index all the various
> arrays (I just checked fbcon.c code), and using int to index arrays is
> pretty standard. As long as we have the con < 0 check to catch evil
> userspace.
> 
> There's still the switch from op to int for con_font_copy, but I think
> that's better done as part of the larger cleanup we already discussed. And
> then maybe also include patch 1 from this series in that rework.

I see. I think at the moment there's not much we can do for
con_font_get/set/default(). _get() and _default() use *op, and _set()
uses all except one field of *op. Maybe we can change the type of *op
from console_font_op to font_desc, after cleaning up everything else?

Peilin