Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: spider_net: avoid using signed char for bitops

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Fri Oct 03 2014 - 11:15:21 EST


On Friday 03 October 2014 17:01:56 Antoine Tenart wrote:
> Signedness bugs may occur when using signed char for bitops,
> depending on if the highest bit is ever used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

It's probably worth mentioning here that this cannot happen in this
driver because it's only used in one powerpc-specific chip, and 'char'
is always 'unsigned' on powerpc.

Arnd
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