linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] serial: core: Update uart_poll_timeout() function to return unsigned long

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Date:   Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:49:39 +0200
From:   Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vamshi Gajjela <vamshigajjela@...gle.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, manugautam@...gle.com,
        Subhash Jadavani <sjadavani@...gle.com>,
        Channa Kadabi <kadabi@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] serial: core: Update uart_poll_timeout() function
 to return unsigned long

On 26. 10. 23, 11:24, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 
>> On 25. 10. 23, 16:26, Vamshi Gajjela wrote:
>>> From: VAMSHI GAJJELA <vamshigajjela@...gle.com>
>>>
>>> The function uart_fifo_timeout() returns an unsigned long value, which is
>>> the number of jiffies. Therefore, the function uart_poll_timeout() has been
>>> modified to use an unsigned long type for timeout values instead of an int
>>> and to avoid truncation.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> there is no truncation possible, right?
> 
> That's very likely true (I didn't run the calculations), thus it's correct
> to not have Fixes tag.

Good. I would remove that "and to avoid truncation" completely from the 
commit log. I would only say that we are getting things consistent.

"avoid truncation" can lead to -> we should backport it to stable. And 
neither is true.

> It's more about having consistent typing since
> we're talking about jiffies, so unsigned long as usual.

Yeah and that's of course fine by me.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs