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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: mwave: fix return type in ioctl
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 19:19:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220804191913.6f52bb6f@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yutv/mvLNJRgDtOu@kili>

On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 10:06:38 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:

> This function is supposed to return zero for success or negative error
> code on failure.  Unfortunately the "retval" is declared as unsigned int
> and the function returns type long.  That means that on 64 bit systems
> it will return positive values on error.

Not sure what tool folks are using these days to figure out who to mail
about Linux bits, but could whoever maintains it stick
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on the ignore list for it.

Thanks

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-04  7:06 [PATCH] char: mwave: fix return type in ioctl Dan Carpenter
2022-08-04  8:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-08-04  8:35   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-08-04 18:19 ` Alan [this message]
2022-08-10  9:18   ` [PATCH] get_maintainer: Add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore Dan Carpenter

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