linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] Input: mousedev - fix implicit conversion warning

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Date:   Mon, 29 May 2017 12:22:52 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Input: mousedev - fix implicit conversion warning

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:07:46AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> If you look at the code of this fucntion we really use ps2_data as
> signed in calculations, and this change would break that. While making
> ps2_data u8 might be beneficial we'd need to rework mousedev_packet() to
> use signed temporaries for dx, dy and dz before stufifng them into
> ps2_data.

Is your recommendation then to stick with the simple cast as in V1 of
this patch, or stick with u8 and rework mousedev_packet()?