Re: Suggestion on "int len" sanity

[randy_dunlap]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 20:09:41 +0200 Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

| On 2005-06-03T11:04:36, randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| 
| > | > Sorry, forgot to add the
| > | > `Signed-Off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>' line :-)
| > | 
| > | Who deprecated it?
| > 
| > Not technically deprecated, just undesirable in the kernel sources.
| 
| Don't tell the device mapper folks. Uhm. And why is it depreciated?

what's depreciated?

Kernel source prefers more explicit typing/sizing,
that's all that I can offer.

And the the C language lawyers can say that 'unsigned' is explicit.  :(

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~Randy
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