Re: [PATCH] drivers: misc: ti-st: Use int instead of fuzzy char for callback status

Marcel Holtmann
2016-07-13T13:13:11Z

Hi Geert,

> On mips and parisc:
>
> drivers/bluetooth/btwilink.c: In function 'ti_st_open':
> drivers/bluetooth/btwilink.c:174:21: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
> hst->reg_status = -EINPROGRESS;
>
> drivers/nfc/nfcwilink.c: In function 'nfcwilink_open':
> drivers/nfc/nfcwilink.c:396:31: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
> drv->st_register_cb_status = -EINPROGRESS;
>
> There are actually two issues:
> 1. Whether "char" is signed or unsigned depends on the architecture.
> As the completion callback data is used to pass a (negative) error
> code, it should always be signed.
> 2. EINPROGRESS is 150 on mips, 245 on parisc.
> Hence -EINPROGRESS doesn't fit in a signed 8-bit number.
>
> Change the callback status from "char" to "int" to fix these.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> ---
> Compile-tested only.
> ---
> drivers/bluetooth/btwilink.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/media/radio/wl128x/fmdrv_common.c | 2 +-
> drivers/misc/ti-st/st_core.c | 2 +-
> drivers/nfc/nfcwilink.c | 4 ++--
> include/linux/ti_wilink_st.h | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.

Regards

Marcel