linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mfd: wm8400-core: signedness bug in wm8400_reg

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:01:35 +0100
From:	Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	<patches@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] mfd: wm8400-core: signedness bug in wm8400_reg_read()

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 12:40:55PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This is harmless because the function is not called, but we're trying to
> return negative error codes so the function needs to return an int
> instead of a u16.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

That patch looks fine, but the function appears to be completely
unused, perhaps just a patch to remove it would be better?

Thanks,
Charles