From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jani.nikula@linux.intel.com, joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com,
rodrigo.vivi@intel.com, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
mingo@redhat.com, linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make is_signed_type() simpler
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:44:24 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190929204424.GA14565@avx2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190929161531.727da348@gandalf.local.home>
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 04:15:31PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 23:06:19 +0300
> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > * Simply compare -1 with 0,
> > * Drop unnecessary parenthesis sets
> >
> > New macro leaves pointer as "unsigned type" but gives a warning,
> > which should be fine because asking whether a pointer is signed is
> > strange question.
> >
> > I'm not sure what's going on in the i915 driver, it is shipping kernel
> > pointers to userspace.
>
> This tells us what the patch does, not why.
Check the subject line.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-29 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-29 20:06 [PATCH] Make is_signed_type() simpler Alexey Dobriyan
2019-09-29 20:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-29 20:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2019-09-29 21:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-29 20:21 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-09-29 21:09 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-09-30 6:16 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-09-30 18:34 ` [Intel-gfx] " Ruhl, Michael J
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20190929204424.GA14565@avx2 \
--to=adobriyan@gmail.com \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org \
--cc=jani.nikula@linux.intel.com \
--cc=joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk \
--cc=mingo@redhat.com \
--cc=rodrigo.vivi@intel.com \
--cc=rostedt@goodmis.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox