Re: [PATCH 34/36] tty: gdm724x: convert counts to size_t

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>]

On 16. 08. 23, 10:40, David Laight wrote:
> From: Jiri Slaby
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 7:47 AM
>>
>> On 15. 08. 23, 19:22, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 11:15:08AM +0200, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
>>>> Unify the type of tty_operations::write() counters with the 'count'
>>>> parameter. I.e. use size_t for them.
>>>>
>>>> This includes changing constants to UL to keep min() and avoid min_t().
>>>
>>> This patch appears to cause a warning/error on 32-bit architectures now
>>> due to this part of the change, as size_t is 'unsigned int' there:
>>
>> Right, this is my brain fart thinking ulong is the same as size_t
>> everywhere. No, size_t is uint on 32bit.
>>
>> I will fix this -- kernel build bot seems to be slow -- it didn't find
>> the issue out in my queue, nor in tty-testing.
> 
> 'Vote up' my patches to minmax.h that make this all work.
> Then it won't care provided both values have the same signedness.
> (or, with patch 5, are non-negative 31bit compile time constants.)

Oh yeah, that [1] looks great. Why should one care in min(4096, 
sizeof()) after all…

So what's the current status of those?

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/b4ce9dad748e489f9314a2dc95615033@AcuMS.aculab.com/

thanks,
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js
suse labs