linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Remove always false 'value

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Date:   Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:35:34 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com>
Cc:     Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@....eng.br>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Thinkpad-acpi devel ML <ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Remove always false 'value <
 0' statement

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:06 PM Xiongfeng Wang
<wangxiongfeng2@...wei.com> wrote:
>
> Since 'value' is declared as unsigned long, the following statement is
> always false.
>         value < 0
>
> So let's remove it.

It's bogus. The warning here doesn't tell anything useful, so doesn't the patch.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko