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Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: change max_phys_sect to ushort

From Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: change max_phys_sect to ushort
Date 2015-11-12 20:00 +0100
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On 11/12/2015 07:42 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> wrote:
>> The max_phys_sect variable is defined as a char. We do a boundary check
>> to maximally allow 256 physical page descriptors per command. As we are
>> not indexing from zero. This expression is always in false. Bump the
>> max_phys_sect to an unsigned short to support the range check.
>
> unsigned int?

Grah, I need to be more careful. I sent the wrong patch after I had 
fixed it to unsigned short.
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[PATCH] lightnvm: change max_phys_sect to ushort Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> - 2015-11-12 19:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: change max_phys_sect to ushort Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-11-12 19:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: change max_phys_sect to ushort Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> - 2015-11-12 20:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: change max_phys_sect to ushort Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me> - 2015-11-12 20:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: change max_phys_sect to ushort Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-11-12 20:10 +0100

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