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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:30:54 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] Staging: rtl8712: signedness bug in init
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 07:24:24AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 11:11 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > PollingCnt is 20 and that means we loop 20 times and then run the
> > timeout code.  After the end of the loop PollingCnt should be -1 but
> > because it's an unsigned char, it's actually 255 and the timeout
> > code never runs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> 
> As a point of interest, did you actually hit a timeout, or was this found by a
> code audit?

This was a static check thing.  (http://smatch.sf.net)

regards,
dan carpenter