On 12 February 2018 at 19:10, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/12/2018 10:45 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> On 12 February 2018 at 18:04, Gustavo A. R. Silva >> <garsilva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi Ard, >>> >>> On 02/08/2018 03:54 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>>> >>>> On 7 February 2018 at 16:00, Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Add suffix ULL to constant 9 in order to give the compiler complete >>>>> information about the proper arithmetic to use. Notice that this >>>>> constant is used in a context that expects an expression of type >>>>> unsigned long long (64 bits, unsigned). >>>>> >>>>> The expression tfr->len * 9 * 1000000 is currently being evaluated >>>>> using 32-bit arithmetic. >>>>> >>>>> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1339619 >>>> >>>> >>>> What does this number mean? If it is an index into some internal >>>> database, please remove it. >>>> >>> >>> This is a unique Coverity identifier. We want to keep information like >>> public Bugzilla IDs and tools like Coverity on the commit message. >>> >> >> Who is 'we' in this case? And how is this id to any benefit of other >> people that have been excluded from 'we'? > > We is probably the greater Linux community here. > >> >> If you add identifiers like this, make sure that they don't only make >> sense to the in-crowd. For instance, you could replace this with a >> http link to the database entry if you really must. > > I don't think it is that easy to extract good URLs from the public Linux > coverity instance which is why referring to coverity IDs is being done > AFAICT. Ah ok, pardon my ignorance then. I wasn't aware there is a public Linux coverity instance. Got a link? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-spi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html