linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] lib/scatterlist: Use consistent types in sgl API

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Message-ID: <1538580491.205649.6.camel@acm.org>
Date:   Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:28:11 -0700
From:   Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
To:     Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@...ulin.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     tvrtko.ursulin@...ux.intel.com,
        Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...el.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] lib/scatterlist: Use consistent types in sgl API

On Wed, 2018-09-26 at 15:16 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...el.com>
> 
> There is an incosistency between data types used for order and number of
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
              inconsistency?
> sg elements in the API.
> 
> Fix it so both are always unsigned int which, in the case of number of
> elements, matches the underlying struct scatterlist.

Anyway,

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>