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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>, Jesper Juhl <juhl@dif.dk>,
	joe@perches.com, juhl-lkml@dif.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk, andrea@e-mind.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab.c remove impossible <0 check - size_t is not signed - patch is against 2.6.1-rc1-mm2
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:33:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FFDB077.8080209@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040108152822.GC8774@suse.de>

Jens Axboe wrote:

>That's fine and has its place, no doubt about that. It doesn't cover the
>patch in this thread though. The check is dead code. It's a cosmetic
>problem though, gcc should not generate the code checking for < 0.
>  
>
I'll fix it when I touch that area again. Probably with the patch that 
allows constructors to fail, which would be 2.7 stuff. It's not really 
urgent.

--
    Manfred



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-08 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-08  1:20 [PATCH] mm/slab.c remove impossible <0 check - size_t is not signed - patch is against 2.6.1-rc1-mm2 Jesper Juhl
2004-01-08  3:08 ` Joe Perches
2004-01-08  9:33   ` Jesper Juhl
2004-01-08 10:16     ` Paul Jackson
2004-01-08 15:28       ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-08 19:33         ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2004-01-08 15:37       ` Joe Perches
2004-01-15  1:13         ` Bill Davidsen

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