Re: [PATCH] ext4: improve str2hashbuf by processing 4-byte chunks

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 at 17:11, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> "char" is not always signed.  It can be signed or unsigned; the C
> specification allows either.  In this particular case, scp is a
> "signed char", not "char".

This is Linux, so commit 3bc753c06dd02a35 ("kbuild: treat char as
always unsigned") in v6.2 and later applies to plain "char".

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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