On 11/29/2014 01:08 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Sasha Levin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Since we can't just change those to unsigned > Sure we can. Just cast them. A signed start/len is bogus crap, it's a > random wrong type.
But this is going on everywhere in fs/! It uses loff_t for pretty much anything, even stuff which are obviously are unsigned (inode.i_size for example). Do you think it's worth the effort to switch is all to unsigned? Thanks, Sasha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
