linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: Use u8 type in i2c transfer calls

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Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:48:14 -0700
From:   Jason Gerecke <killertofu@...il.com>
To:     Wolfram Sang <wsa-dev@...g-engineering.com>,
        Jason Gerecke <killertofu@...il.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        linux-i2c <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-iio <linux-iio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ping Cheng <pinglinux@...il.com>,
        "Tobita, Tatsunosuke" <tatsunosuke.tobita@...om.com>,
        Jason Gerecke <jason.gerecke@...om.com>,
        Ping Cheng <ping.cheng@...om.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] i2c: Use u8 type in i2c transfer calls

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 1:11 PM Wolfram Sang
<wsa-dev@...g-engineering.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > I believe you need to create a coccinelle script and run it over the
> > > kernel source tree and then create a patch out of it.
> >
> > This would definitely be necessary to unify all callers to using
> > unsigned variables rather than just swapping which callers generate
> > the pointer-sign warnings.
>
> I am all for using u8 because this is the proper type.
>
> Yet, if we touch this function argument, I'd also like to remove all
> inconsistencies once and for all. Removing some warnings here and add
> some there is not a good choice IMO. However, how to do this switch of
> types cleanly without too much churn, I sadly have no good idea yet.
>

I spent a little time trying to put together a Coccinelle script to
take care of everything but I eventually realized the size of the task
was larger than I was comfortable with. In particular, even though I
might be able to put together a script, I worry I don't have a good
way to test the resulting treewide changes to avoid regression.