netdev - Re: PATCH: netdev: add a cast NLMSG_OK to avoid a GCC warning in users' code

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Date:	Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:37:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hugh@...osa.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: netdev: add a cast NLMSG_OK to avoid a GCC warning in
 users' code

From: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@...osa.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 09:46:56 -0400 (EDT)

> Using netlink.h's NLMSG_OK correctly will cause GCC to issue a warning
> on systems with 32-bit userland.  The definition can easily be changed
> to avoid this.

Everyone either uses an unsigned type (such as "size_t") or adds an
explicit cast to an unsinged type for the second argument.

The code you were trying to compile should do so as well.

I'm not applying this, sorry.
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