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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] bitops: Change bitmap index from int to unsigned
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:03:15 +0100
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On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 08:53 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I don't see the downside to using unsigned long instead of unsigned int.

OK, I guess, it just seemed plenty large enough, but if you're actually
running off the end..