From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "Michael Büsch" <mb@bu3sch.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@wfinger.net>,
"Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>,
"Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] b43: silense most sparse warnings
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:11:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100721171153.GD2355@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4724C5.4080400@lwfinger.net>
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:48:05AM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 07/21/2010 11:05 AM, Michael Büsch wrote:
> >On 07/21/2010 05:45 PM, John W. Linville wrote:
> >>diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_g.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_g.c
> >>index 29bf34c..0dc33b6 100644
> >>--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_g.c
> >>+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_g.c
> >>@@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ b43_radio_interference_mitigation_enable(struct b43_wldev
> >>*dev, int mode)
> >>b43_phy_maskset(dev, 0x04A2, 0xFFF0, 0x000B);
> >>
> >>if (phy->rev>= 3) {
> >>- b43_phy_mask(dev, 0x048A, (u16)~0x8000);
> >>+ b43_phy_mask(dev, 0x048A, 0x7FFF);
> >
> >This cast was introduced to silense a GCC warning. Do we end up in an
> >infinite loop now? ;)
>
> I get no GCC warnings here with the change. I think it is OK.
>
> Is silense a valid British spelling? I prefer silence.
Just a typo. :-)
> Do you wish to clean up the warnings from the N-PHY code as well?
> Ignoring the "should it be static?" parts, I get the following
> sparse warnings:
>
> drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c:512:53: warning: cast truncates
> bits from constant value (ffff0fff becomes fff)
> drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c:765:66: warning: cast truncates
> bits from constant value (ffff7fff becomes 7fff)
> drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c:1012:38: warning: cast truncates
> bits from constant value (ffff00ff becomes ff)
> drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c:1119:38: warning: cast truncates
> bits from constant value (ffff0fff becomes fff)
> drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c:2458:56: warning: cast truncates
> bits from constant value (ffff7fff becomes 7fff)
> drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c:2933:38: warning: cast truncates
> bits from constant value (ffff0fff becomes fff)
> drivers/net/wireless/b43/phy_n.c:3294:57: warning: cast truncates
> bits from constant value (ffff3fff becomes 3fff)
>
> The patch for them is below.
Seems fine -- shall I add your Signed-off-by?
John
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-21 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-21 15:45 [PATCH] b43: silense most sparse warnings John W. Linville
2010-07-21 16:05 ` Michael Büsch
2010-07-21 16:38 ` John W. Linville
2010-07-21 16:48 ` Larry Finger
2010-07-21 17:11 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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