netdev - RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] ice: use min() to make code cleaner in ice

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Date:   Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:47:28 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Alexander Lobakin' <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>,
        Wan Jiabing <wanjiabing@...o.com>
CC:     Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        "intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] ice: use min() to make code cleaner in
 ice_gnss

> Use `min_t(typeof(bytes_left), ICE_MAX_I2C_DATA_SIZE)` to avoid
> this. Plain definitions are usually treated as `unsigned long`
> unless there's a suffix (u, ull etc.).

I suspect they are 'int'.
And the compiler will convert to 'unsigned int' in any
arithmetic.
And the 'signed v unsigned' compare warning is supressed
to integer constants.

	David

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