linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] NVMe: silence GCC warning on 32 bit

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Date:	Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:49:37 +0100
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] NVMe: silence GCC warning on 32 bit

Hi Paul,

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> And as this is now unlikely to be in time for v3.14, we might decide to
> dig deeper. It won't be the first time that a rather small change (say,
> converting a variable from signed to unsigned) turns out be enough to
> make GCC understand the flow of the code.

Anything we can do with factoring out the "if (!first)" in both branches?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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