linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/12] sound: au88x0_core.c fix incorrect signedness warnings

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Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:11:06 +0100
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/12] sound: au88x0_core.c fix incorrect signedness	warnings

> Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/12] sound: au88x0_core.c fix incorrect signedness warnings 

The patch overflow?  ;-)

At Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:06:43 -0800,
Harvey Harrison wrote:
> 
> Fixes the following, repeated at every callsite, vortex->fixed_res is always
> passed in this argument, the change to unsigned int won't change anything.
> 
> sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c:2047:54: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
> sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c:2047:54:    expected int *resmap
> sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_core.c:2047:54:    got unsigned int *<noident>

I thought this warning is rather a compiler issue.  We had this with
some gcc version but it was suppressed as default in the end.

Fine to fix in the code as it's obviously correct, though.


thanks,

Takashi
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