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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:13:13 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
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	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH next v4 0/5] minmax: Relax type checks in min() and max().
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I've often wondered why so many people use min_t(int, size, limit) when
they really do not want negative sizes...  Is there a performance reason?
git grep 'min_t(int,' says there are 872 instances of this.  Probably
some do want negatives but it's a quite small percent.

regards,
dan carpenter