linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: printk-formats: update size-casting examples

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Date:   Sun, 13 Jun 2021 17:08:41 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: printk-formats: update size-casting examples

Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com> writes:

> Since commit 72deb455b5ec ("block: remove CONFIG_LBDAF") sector_t and
> blkcnt_t types are no longer variable in size, making them unsuitable
> examples for casting to the largest possible type. This patch replaces
> such examples with cycles_t and blk_status_t types, whose sizes depend
> on architecture and config options respectively.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon