From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Stewart Smith <stewartsmith@mac.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: buffer_head.b_bsize type
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 04:28:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030529112841.GA8978@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030529111517.GP14138@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:35:03AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Could we go the other way and make all users of b_size use unsigned?
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:15:17PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> Who the hell cares? Size of buffer does not exceed the page size.
> Unless you can show a platform with 2Gb pages...
The thought behind my comment was that it didn't make sense to allow
the representation to go negative. There of course shouldn't ever be
any need to allow >= 2GB b_size to be representable.
I'll defer to viro here.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-29 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-29 10:29 buffer_head.b_bsize type Stewart Smith
2003-05-29 10:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-29 11:15 ` viro
2003-05-29 11:28 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-05-30 14:24 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-05-30 14:43 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-05-31 2:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-29 14:19 ` Stewart Smith
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