Re: [PATCH] kbuild: treat char as always signed

Andy Shevchenko
2022-10-19T19:23:49Z

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:35:50AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:10 AM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:

...

> We do have a couple of signed bitfields in the kernel, but they are
> unusual enough that it's actually a good thing that sparse just made
> people be explicit about it.

At least drivers/media/usb/msi2500/msi2500.c:289 can be converted
to use sign_extend32() I believe.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko