Re: [PATCH 2.4.26] drivers/char/vt.c fix compiler warnings

[Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 02:47:56PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> > (MAX_NR_KEYMAPS is a #define, often 256, on tiny systems people tend to
> > pick 16. The above test is not superfluous. MAX_NR_KEYMAPS is not an
> > absolute constant.)
> 
> Ooops, did not think about that. Was just annoyed from the compiler warnings.
> What about:
> 
>  	if (copy_from_user(&tmp, user_kbe, sizeof(struct kbentry)))
>  		return -EFAULT;
> +#if MAX_NR_KEYMAPS < 256		
>  	if (i >= NR_KEYS || s >= MAX_NR_KEYMAPS)
> +#else
> +	if (i >= NR_KEYS)
> +#endif	

(i) My muttering was not just about this case - also elsewhere
you removed tests that are only superfluous under a particular
constellation of #define-s.
(ii) Introducing conditional compilation certainly would not
make anybody happier.

I don't have the code nearby, but probably you could use an (unsigned) integer
variable.

Andries