linux-kernel - Re: 8250-men-mcb: fix signed/unsigned confusion

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Message-ID: <20191115211351.GB30273@duo.ucw.cz>
Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:13:51 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>, colin.king@...onical.com,
        mmoese@...e.de, sashal@...nel.org
Subject: Re: 8250-men-mcb: fix signed/unsigned confusion

On Fri 2019-11-15 23:09:42, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 01:52:34PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Commit 5210a3a722543fc25b8830d2236dcbe2c8178468 fixes part of
> > signed/unsigned confusion, but not all of it.
> > 
> > 8250-men-mcb: fix error checking when get_num_ports returns -ENODEV
> > Upstream commit f50b6805dbb993152025ec04dea094c40cc93a0c
> > 
> > Fix function returning -ENODEV to signed prototype, and make error
> > check consistent between two functions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
> a patch that has triggered this response.  He used to manually
> respond

Not sure what is supposed to be friendly about this bot.

Anyway, it would be nice if authors of
5210a3a722543fc25b8830d2236dcbe2c8178468 picked this up. I have no way
to test it.

					 	     	   Pavel

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