From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
'Andy Shevchenko' <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
"'Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)'" <willy@infradead.org>,
'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@infradead.org>,
"'Jason A. Donenfeld'" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next v4 0/5] minmax: Relax type checks in min() and max().
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:30:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230927103014.683e41b855cb2cd4ea163fa5@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b97faef60ad24922b530241c5d7c933c@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:14:40 +0000 David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> wrote:
> A quick grep shows 5734 min() and 4597 min_t().
> Having the casts on almost half of the calls shows that something
> is clearly wrong.
My preferred approach to fixing min() warnings is "the types are wrong".
But often getting the types better is hard.
Is there a plan afoot to go around existing code doing some
min_t()->min() conversions?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-27 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-18 8:14 [PATCH next v4 0/5] minmax: Relax type checks in min() and max() David Laight
2023-09-18 8:16 ` [PATCH next v4 1/5] minmax: Add umin(a, b) and umax(a, b) David Laight
2024-01-12 12:49 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-01-12 13:40 ` David Laight
2024-01-12 14:03 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-01-12 14:26 ` David Laight
2024-01-18 10:30 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-09-18 8:17 ` [PATCH next v4 2/5] minmax: Allow min()/max()/clamp() if the arguments have the same signedness David Laight
2023-09-18 8:17 ` [PATCH next v4 3/5] minmax: Fix indentation of __cmp_once() and __clamp_once() David Laight
2023-09-18 8:18 ` [PATCH next v4 4/5] minmax: Allow comparisons of 'int' against 'unsigned char/short' David Laight
2023-09-18 8:19 ` [PATCH next v4 5/5] minmax: Relax check to allow comparison between unsigned arguments and signed constants David Laight
2023-09-27 17:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2023-09-28 8:10 ` [PATCH next v4 0/5] minmax: Relax type checks in min() and max() David Laight
2024-01-08 11:46 ` Jiri Slaby
2024-01-08 13:34 ` David Laight
2024-01-08 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-08 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-08 21:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-09 0:39 ` [PATCH next v4 0/5] minmax: Relax type checks in min() and max().^[[C John Stoffel
2024-01-09 6:54 ` [PATCH next v4 0/5] minmax: Relax type checks in min() and max() Jiri Slaby
2024-01-10 6:17 ` Stephen Rothwell
2024-01-10 9:03 ` David Laight
2024-01-10 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-10 22:58 ` David Laight
2024-01-20 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-01-21 22:18 ` David Laight
2024-01-09 9:35 ` David Laight
2024-01-09 9:41 ` David Laight
2024-01-09 12:09 ` Kalle Valo
2024-01-19 7:14 ` Jiri Slaby
2024-01-19 8:23 ` Hans Verkuil
2024-01-19 9:14 ` David Laight
2024-01-12 9:13 ` Dan Carpenter
2024-01-12 12:16 ` David Laight
2024-01-12 12:40 ` Dan Carpenter
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