Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: Use u8 type in i2c transfer calls

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Wed Oct 19 2022 - 16:11:40 EST



> > I believe you need to create a coccinelle script and run it over the
> > kernel source tree and then create a patch out of it.
>
> This would definitely be necessary to unify all callers to using
> unsigned variables rather than just swapping which callers generate
> the pointer-sign warnings.

I am all for using u8 because this is the proper type.

Yet, if we touch this function argument, I'd also like to remove all
inconsistencies once and for all. Removing some warnings here and add
some there is not a good choice IMO. However, how to do this switch of
types cleanly without too much churn, I sadly have no good idea yet.

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