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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make is_signed_type() simpler
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.

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