From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: "'Andy Shevchenko'" <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
"'Joe Perches'" <joe@perches.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Slightly relax the type checking done by min() and max().
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:02:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221125160222.9d69bb5d54a0304e0f476f67@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03db8d2f34fa4bffada8b34ee87b090a@AcuMS.aculab.com>
On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:47:14 +0000 David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> wrote:
> > Blindly relaxing the rules is not an option in my opinion.
>
> The point is I'm not really relaxing the rules.
> If anything I'm actually tightening them by allowing min() to
> be used in more cases - so letting the buggy min_t() casts be
> removed at some point in the future.
That sounds very virtuous.
It would be helpful to see a few "convert min_t to min" patches
to see this proposal in action.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-26 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-25 15:00 David Laight
2022-11-25 15:17 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-11-25 15:22 ` David Laight
2022-11-25 15:20 ` Andy Shevchenko
2022-11-25 15:27 ` David Laight
2022-11-25 15:58 ` 'Andy Shevchenko'
2022-11-25 16:14 ` David Laight
2022-11-25 17:48 ` 'Andy Shevchenko'
2022-11-25 19:47 ` David Laight
2022-11-26 0:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-11-26 10:21 ` David Laight
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