Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] staging: android: binder: fix BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADS declaration

[Serban Constantinescu <Serban.Constantinescu@arm.com>]

On 10/04/13 00:53, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Serban Constantinescu
> <serban.constantinescu@arm.com> wrote:
>> This change will fix the BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADS ioctl to use __s32
>> instead of size_t for setting the max threads. Thus using the same
>> handler for 32 and 64bit kernels.
>>
>> This value is stored internally in struct binder_proc as an int and
>> is set to 15 on open_binder() in the libbinder API (thus no need for
>> a 64bit size_t on 64bit platforms).
>>
>
> Why switch to a signed type?

The value passed through BINDER_SET_MAX_THREADS ioctl is stored in a 
binder_proc structure as an int.It also mimics the use of pid_t(typedef 
int __kernel_pid_t).

However using __s32 or __u32 here would have the same effect since the 
ioctl macro will compute both as sizeof(32bit).

Let me know if you would like this changed to __u32.

Thanks,
Serban