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From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
To: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	OSUOSL Drivers <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	hsweeten@visionengravers.com, dcb314@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio16d.c: remove pointless condition
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:43:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1405082594.21735.1.camel@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANZNk82rsdbg+zQGQODmNMpScaHZiZ8MeooGWabWZPGwzErCyQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

On Fre, 2014-07-11 at 15:30 +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote:
[...]
> Could you please substantiate this? I see that convert_arg has type
> "unsigned int" which may be 8 bytes on 64-bit platform. I haven't

At least in the x86_64 world, "unsigned int" has 32bit.
TTBOMK, it is similar on all other 64bit - otherwise there is no way to
address 32bit ("short int" is usually 16 bit).

	Bernd
-- 
"I dislike type abstraction if it has no real reason. And saving
on typing is not a good reason - if your typing speed is the main
issue when you're coding, you're doing something seriously wrong."
    - Linus Torvalds


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-11 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-11 10:13 [PATCH] drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio16d.c: remove pointless condition Andrey Utkin
2014-07-11 12:01 ` Ian Abbott
2014-07-11 12:30   ` Andrey Utkin
2014-07-11 12:43     ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2014-07-11 13:11     ` Dan Carpenter
2014-07-11 14:32 ` [PATCH v2] From: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com> Ian Abbott
2014-07-11 14:35   ` Ian Abbott
2014-07-11 14:38   ` [PATCH v3] drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_atmio16d.c: remove pointless condition Ian Abbott
2014-07-11 14:39     ` Ian Abbott
2014-07-12  0:39       ` Greg KH
2014-07-11 15:34     ` Dan Carpenter
2014-07-11 17:06       ` Ian Abbott
2014-07-11 17:22         ` Dan Carpenter
2014-07-11 17:54     ` Andrey Utkin
2014-07-11 19:40       ` Dan Carpenter

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