Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:06:18 +0300 | From | Oleg Drokin <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.21-pre4 comparison bugs (More of those) |
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Hello!
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:01:30PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > This time I changed the type of variable to signed type whenever > > I felt it was appropriate. > > When I was not sure (or unsigned type was in some commonly used > > structure), I still used a cast just to highlight a problem, so that someone > > more knowledgeable created better fix. > > See the patch. > > Mostly we do incorrect stuff on errors. Sigh, nobody likes errors ;) > Hiding them is even worse than having them there visible and unfixed. > Changing the sign on stuff holding physical addresses is actually > introducing real bugs
I assume you are speaking of slram stuff here. I thought that slram was not designed to work with parts of RAM past 2G border. (as far as I remember, slram was used on old x86 HW to convert uncached RAM beyond 64M (256M for some systems?) into kind of a ramdisk.)
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