Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: unisys: remove comparison

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 07:44:21PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> the macro comparison is always true as MAJOR is defined as
> unsiged int.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
> index 9ca7f1e..a1e8e79 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
> @@ -82,10 +82,8 @@ visorchipset_file_cleanup(void)
>  		cdev_del(&file_cdev);
>  	file_cdev.ops = NULL;
>  	if (registered) {
> -		if (MAJOR(majordev) >= 0) {
> -			unregister_chrdev_region(majordev, 1);
> -			majordev = MKDEV(0, 0);
> -		}
> +		unregister_chrdev_region(majordev, 1);
> +		majordev = MKDEV(0, 0);

If this is really true, then why is someone trying to assign -1 to
majordev at the top of the file?  :)

I suggest you fix this up properly, not by papering over the bug.

thanks,

greg k-h