Re: [for-linus][PATCH 01/10] tracing: Suppress sparse warnings triggered by is_signed_type()

[Bart Van Assche]

On 8/23/22 18:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That's the
>
> > It does require that kernel change to make
> >
> >    #define is_signed_type(type)   (((type)(-1)) <= (type)0)
>
> part I was talking about.
>
> So your kernel side patch looks fine, except I don't think you need
> the '__force' - the sparse patches in my tree should make sparse happy
> about casting '-1'.

Thank you for having provided this feedback. If I change the
is_signed_type() definition into the above (no __force), the sparse
warnings shown in my previous email disappear. Now I'm puzzled about
how this is possible. I guess I should take a closer look at the sparse
patches.

Bart.