Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: treat char as always unsigned

Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-12-22T13:05:51Z

Hi Linus,

On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 7:46 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 9:19 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 09:06:41AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > I think the real fix is to just remove that broken implementation
> > > entirely, and rely on the generic one.
> >
> > Perfectly fine with me.
>
> That got pushed out as commit 7c0846125358 ("m68k: remove broken
> strcmp implementation") but it's obviously entirely untested. I don't
> do m68k cross-compiles, much less boot tests.
>
> Just FYI for everybody - I may have screwed something up for some very
> non-obvious reason.
>
> But it looked very obvious indeed, and I hate having buggy code that
> is architecture-specific when we have generic code that isn't buggy.

Thank you for being proactive!
It works fine (and slightly reduced kernel size, too ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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