linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysctl: add proper unsigned int support

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Message-ID: <CAB=NE6XWgd6ob9LpZDogmSDNMm7iP4_M-JBvw5tseAahj0JCgg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2017 17:32:57 -0800
From:   "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, shuah@...nel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: add proper unsigned int support

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org> wrote:
> So unless anyone finds evidence to the contrary I will be ripping
> out array support from unsigned int

Oh so I should probably explain: the reason for this is that even
though I found one possible user for array for unsigned int, we
support ranges with int, and that should suffice for that driver.

 Luis