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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] more signed char cleanups in scripts
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"J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es> wrote:
>
> This cleans the last signedness problems I have seen in scripts, at least
>  what I can see with make oldconfig, make config, make menuconfig, 
>  make gconfig and make.

Remind me: what's the point in these changes?

I see no particular problem using uchar in the kallsyms code - I often
prefer it, because you can just look at the code and not have to worry
about nasty sign-extension problems.