linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] greybus: audio: Fix sparse warning.

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Date:   Wed, 19 May 2021 16:47:55 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Rajat Asthana <thisisrast7@...il.com>
Cc:     vaibhav.sr@...il.com, mgreer@...malcreek.com, johan@...nel.org,
        elder@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] greybus: audio: Fix sparse warning.

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 07:11:19PM +0530, Rajat Asthana wrote:
> Sparse complains that:
>    warning: restricted send_ctl_elem_iface_t degrades to integer.
> 
> I have looked at this code, and the code is fine as-is. Normally we
> would frown on using the __force directive to silence Sparse warnings
> but in this case it's fine. Case statements can't be made into __bitwise
> types. We also can't change the type of "ctl->iface" either because that
> is part of the user space API.
> 
> So just add a (__force int) to make the warning go away.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rajat Asthana <thisisrast7@...il.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>     - Update the commit message.

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

regards,
dan carpenter