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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: posix-clock: Use an unsigned data type for a variable
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:12:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151221101236.GA4285@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5677C6B3.8060007@users.sourceforge.net>

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:30:27AM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > In this case, there is indeed a problem.  However, just changing the
> > type won't fix it.
> 
> Would you like to explain your view on the handling of potential
> data type mismatches a bit more?

Yes, I will explain in the patch that follows.

Thanks,
Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-21 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-20  8:19 [PATCH] posix-clock: Use an unsigned data type for a variable SF Markus Elfring
2015-12-20 11:09 ` Julia Lawall
2015-12-20 12:48   ` SF Markus Elfring
2015-12-20 12:51     ` Julia Lawall
2015-12-20 13:08       ` SF Markus Elfring
2015-12-20 20:09 ` Richard Cochran
2015-12-21  9:30   ` SF Markus Elfring
2015-12-21 10:12     ` Richard Cochran [this message]
2015-12-22 21:19 ` [PATCH] posix-clock: fix return code on the poll method's error path Richard Cochran
2015-12-29 10:36   ` [tip:timers/urgent] posix-clock: Fix " tip-bot for Richard Cochran

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