Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 13:32:29 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: PATCH 1/2: Make gotoxy & siblings use unsigned variables
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Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> This patch makes console X and Y coordinates unsigned, rather than
> signed. Issues with wide (> 128 char?) consoles, seen when developing
> Software Suspend's 'nice display' are thus fixed. A brief examination of
> related code showed that this use of signed variables was the exception
> rather than the rule.

You'll probably find that all you needed to do was to convert the chars
over to unsigned, not the integers.

But whatever.

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