Ack. Should I expect this in a future pull request, or take it directly? There's no hurry about this, since none of the existing users of that function actually do anything but test the return value against zero, and nobody saves it into anything but a "bool" (which has magical casting properties and does not lose upper bits). Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html