From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:54:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] [SCSI] target: dubious one-bit signed bitfield Message-Id: <20110115165401.GE2721@bicker> List-Id: References: <20110115140445.GD2721@bicker> <4D31CCFB.1060504@bfs.de> In-Reply-To: <4D31CCFB.1060504@bfs.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: walter harms Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , James Bottomley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 05:36:11PM +0100, walter harms wrote: > > > Am 15.01.2011 15:04, schrieb Dan Carpenter: > > The signed one-bit types can be 0 or -1 which can cause a problem if > > someone ever checks if (foo->lu_gp_assoc = 1). The current code is > > fine because everyone just checks zero vs non-zero. But Sparse > > complains about it so lets change it. The warnings look like this: > > > > Your code looks ok, > but to avoid that kind of errors it may be better to use int here. > I'm afraid I don't understand what you are saying. regards, dan carpenter