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Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:23:32 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:35:50AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 11:10 AM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:

...

> We do have a couple of signed bitfields in the kernel, but they are
> unusual enough that it's actually a good thing that sparse just made
> people be explicit about it.

At least drivers/media/usb/msi2500/msi2500.c:289 can be converted
to use sign_extend32() I believe.

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Andy Shevchenko