> Just make it an int. Thanks for your suggestion. Will any more software developers prefer this data type at some source code places? > The caller also casts it to u32... Do you want to get rid of similar casts in affected functions? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html