linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] wifi: nl80211: drop impossible negative band check

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Message-ID: <a1989402f65d0a9a696eb85925db98f6b722fc11.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:29:35 +0100
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: sun jian <sun.jian.kdev@...il.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: nl80211: drop impossible negative band check

On Wed, 2026-02-04 at 19:21 +0800, sun jian wrote:
> > 
> > applies _only_ to signed short, not to signed char?
> Fair point, thanks. I'll drop this patch.

I've thought the better way to address that warning would be to simply
use 'int' instead of the enum there, but I forgot where the warning even
appears. I don't think it's generally with gcc/clang, is it?

johannes