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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:22:50 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] iio: imu: adis16400: Fix sign extension
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To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Cc: Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>, Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>, Peter Meerwald <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 09:34:01AM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 01/30/2015 09:30 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >Because of C's type promotion rules, the code shifts in
> >"((val16 & 0xFFF) << 4) >> 4;" cancel each other out and they're a
> >no-op.
> >
> >The intention here was to sign-extend then 11th bit so we can use the
> >sign_extend32() function.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> >---
> >Please review this carefully.  I'm pretty sure it's correct but this is
> >the first time I've ever used the sign_extend32() function.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Rasmus already fixed this a couple of days ago.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Lars

Oh.  Good.  I was CC'd on the other one that he fixed so I went looking
for other bugs and I found this one.

Rasmus, are you using a static checker?  Which one?

regards,
dan carpenter