linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix unsigned return type

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Message-Id: <20100906.184007.58449609.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	julia@...u.dk
Cc:	chas@....nrl.navy.mil, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix unsigned return type

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Date: Sun,  5 Sep 2010 21:00:23 +0200

> The function has an unsigned return type, but returns a negative constant
> to indicate an error condition.  The result of calling the function is
> always stored in a variable of type (signed) int, and thus unsigned can be
> dropped from the return type.
> 
> A sematic match that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
...
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Applied.
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