linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] serial: core: Update uart_poll_timeout() function to return unsigned long

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Message-ID: <2023102735-critter-crust-542f@gregkh>
Date:   Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:56:04 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Vamshi Gajjela <vamshigajjela@...gle.com>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>, ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        manugautam@...gle.com, Subhash Jadavani <sjadavani@...gle.com>,
        Channa Kadabi <kadabi@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] serial: core: Update uart_poll_timeout() function
 to return unsigned long

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 07:45:34PM +0530, Vamshi Gajjela wrote:
> The function uart_fifo_timeout() returns an unsigned long value, which
> is the number of jiffies. Therefore, change the variable timeout in the
> function uart_poll_timeout() from int to unsigned long.
> Change the return type of the function uart_poll_timeout() from int to
> unsigned long to be consistent with the type of timeout values.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vamshi Gajjela <vamshigajjela@...gle.com>
> ---

Again, I can't do anything with just a 3/3 patch.

Please send whole series of commits.  Again, what would you want to do
if you got 1000+ emails a day to do something with?

thanks,

greg k-h