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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] mtd: nand: silence some shift wrap warnings
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:35:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130813063533.GP5502@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5209D0C6.5070307@freescale.com>

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 02:23:02PM +0800, Huang Shijie wrote:
> 于 2013年08月09日 17:49, Dan Carpenter 写道:
> >There are static checkers which complain when we declare variables as
> 
> could you tell me which "checker" and how do you test it?
> 
> you'd better post the warning message here.
> 

It's some stuff I'm working on but haven't released yet.  But "len"
and "ofs" are declared as u64 and loff_t.  If they were declared as
unsigned long then maybe the current code would be fine because the
code would be correct-ish on 32 bit arches.

So this is definitely the right thing to do.

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-09  9:49 [patch] mtd: nand: silence some shift wrap warnings Dan Carpenter
2013-08-13  6:23 ` Huang Shijie
2013-08-13  6:35   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2013-08-13  7:31     ` Brian Norris
2013-08-16 14:55 ` Artem Bityutskiy

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