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Message-ID: <44E8B05A.1090105@us.ibm.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:56:26 -0500
From: Brian King <brking@...ibm.com>
To: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Signedness issue in drivers/scsi/ipr.c
Eric Sesterhenn wrote:
> hi,
>
> gcc 4.1 with some extra warnings show the following:
>
> drivers/scsi/ipr.c:6361: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
> drivers/scsi/ipr.c:6385: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
> drivers/scsi/ipr.c:6415: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
Acked-by: Brian King <brking@...ibm.com>
>
> The problem is that rc is of the type u32, which can never be smaller than zero,
> therefore all three error handling checks get useless. This patch changes it to
> a normal int, because all usages / all functions it get used with expect an int.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@....de>
>
> --- linux-2.6.18-rc4/drivers/scsi/ipr.c.orig 2006-08-19 21:10:18.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.18-rc4/drivers/scsi/ipr.c 2006-08-19 21:10:25.000000000 +0200
> @@ -6324,7 +6324,7 @@ static int __devinit ipr_probe_ioa(struc
> struct Scsi_Host *host;
> unsigned long ipr_regs_pci;
> void __iomem *ipr_regs;
> - u32 rc = PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL;
> + int rc = PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL;
> volatile u32 mask, uproc;
>
> ENTER;
>
>
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