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Message-Id: <20221125160222.9d69bb5d54a0304e0f476f67@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 16:02:22 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM> Cc: "'Andy Shevchenko'" <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, "'Joe Perches'" <joe@...ches.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Slightly relax the type checking done by min() and max(). On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 19:47:14 +0000 David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM> wrote: > > Blindly relaxing the rules is not an option in my opinion. > > The point is I'm not really relaxing the rules. > If anything I'm actually tightening them by allowing min() to > be used in more cases - so letting the buggy min_t() casts be > removed at some point in the future. That sounds very virtuous. It would be helpful to see a few "convert min_t to min" patches to see this proposal in action.
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