linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]: warrning fix: unsigned->signed

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Date:	Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:55:27 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [PATCH]: warrning fix: unsigned->signed

> From: Andrew Morton
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
> Subject: Re: [PATCH]: warrning fix: unsigned->signed
> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:09:36 -0800
  Mail-Followup-To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Tomasz Kvarsin" <kvarsin@...il.com>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, axboe@...nel.dk

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:39:45 +0300
> "Tomasz Kvarsin" <kvarsin@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> While compiling my code, I always get bunch of warrning from headers,
>> here is fix for them:
>> __getblk is alawys called with unsigned argument,
>> but it takes signed, the same story with __bread,__breadahead and so on.
>
> The patch seems OK, but I'm curious to know why you're seeing this warning
> and nobody else is.  Are you using a compiler other than gcc?  If gcc,
> which version?  Did you add any new compiler options?

Andrew, i think it's due to 

,-*- quote -*-
| Friends don't let friends use "-W". [0]
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I get many of them, when compiling external modules with `-Wall', of
course ;)

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