Re: [PATCH v2] stacktrace: cleanup inconsistent variable type

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu May 07 2020 - 20:04:55 EST


On Wed, 6 May 2020 10:18:24 +0800 Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2020-04-22 at 18:21 -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On 4/20/20 6:35 PM, Walter Wu wrote:
> > > Modify the variable type of 'skip' member of struct stack_trace.
> > > In theory, the 'skip' variable type should be unsigned int.
> > > There are two reasons:
> > > - The 'skip' only has two situation, 1)Positive value, 2)Zero
> > > - The 'skip' of struct stack_trace has inconsistent type with struct
> > > stack_trace_data, it makes a bit confusion in the relationship between
> > > struct stack_trace and stack_trace_data.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Would you know why not to be picked up this patch yet?
> Do I miss somethings?

I'd decided to pass on this because it's so minor. We inappropriately
use signed types in soooo many places :(