Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Date | Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:51:09 +0200 | | Subject | Re: Linux 3.1-rc9 |
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote: > > These types are still there because cputime_t can be u32 or u64. E.g. this > > timer->expires.cpu = 0; > > will give the following sparse warning > > kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c:463:46: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
Ok, we should probably special-case zero for that case too (we consider zero to be very special - it's not only the NULL pointer, but 0 is special for the bitwise types etc). So this is very arguably a sparse issue: casting zero is special.
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