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From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:02:34 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] [media] av7110: make array offset unsigned
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To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 16:51 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> But just for my own understanding, why is it wrong to change an int to
> an unsigned int in the userspace API?  Who would notice?

E.g. the same check in userspace (var < 0).  If var has changed the sign
then the result would differ.

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Vasiliy