linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/14] [media] fix warning on v4l2_subdev

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Message-ID: <20170714130955.zqe26g6zpixr3xj2@mwanda>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:09:55 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
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        Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Niklas Söderlund 
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        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] [media] fix warning on v4l2_subdev_call() result
 interpreted as bool

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 03:55:26PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I don't agree with it as a static analysis dev...

What I mean is if it's a macro that returns -ENODEV or a function that
returns -ENODEV, they should both be treated the same.  The other
warnings this check prints are quite clever.

regards,
dan carpenter