netdev - Re: [PATCH] can: add limit for nframes and clean up signed/unsigned variables

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Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:12:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	socketcan@...tkopp.net
Cc:	hawkes@...gle.com, urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] can: add limit for nframes and clean up
 signed/unsigned variables

From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:44:34 +0200

> This patch adds a limit for nframes as the number of frames in TX_SETUP and
> RX_SETUP are derived from a single byte multiplex value by default.
> Use-cases that would require to send/filter more than 256 CAN frames should
> be implemented in userspace for complexity reasons anyway.
> 
> Additionally the assignments of unsigned values from userspace to signed
> values in kernelspace and vice versa are fixed by using unsigned values in
> kernelspace consistently.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>
> Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Urs Thuermann <urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de>

Applied and I'll queue this up for -stable, thanks.
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