Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262164AbTE2LSj (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 07:18:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262170AbTE2LSi (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 07:18:38 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:14727 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262164AbTE2LPk (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 May 2003 07:15:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 04:28:41 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: Stewart Smith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: buffer_head.b_bsize type Message-ID: <20030529112841.GA8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Stewart Smith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au References: <746529B0-91C0-11D7-9488-00039346F142@mac.com> <20030529103503.GZ8978@holomorphy.com> <20030529111517.GP14138@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030529111517.GP14138@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:35:03AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Could we go the other way and make all users of b_size use unsigned? On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:15:17PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > Who the hell cares? Size of buffer does not exceed the page size. > Unless you can show a platform with 2Gb pages... The thought behind my comment was that it didn't make sense to allow the representation to go negative. There of course shouldn't ever be any need to allow >= 2GB b_size to be representable. I'll defer to viro here. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/