Re: [PATCH v2] ASoC: hdac_hdmi: convert num_nodes to int

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:08:19 +0100,
Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> 
> All uses of num_nodes are considering it as a signed integer and that is
> very much clear when we try to save the error value in it and later try
> to compare it with less than 0.

No.  The point is that the value checked *there* has to be int, not
the value used for the success case.  Just have a temporary value,
e.g. int num_nodes, assign there, check it, then assign the value to
codec->num_nodes field.  The num_nodes field itself is obviously an
unsigned.


Takashi


> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> ---
>  include/sound/hdaudio.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/sound/hdaudio.h b/include/sound/hdaudio.h
> index e2b712c..c5fad14 100644
> --- a/include/sound/hdaudio.h
> +++ b/include/sound/hdaudio.h
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ struct hdac_device {
>  			 unsigned int flags, unsigned int *res);
>  
>  	/* widgets */
> -	unsigned int num_nodes;
> +	int num_nodes;
>  	hda_nid_t start_nid, end_nid;
>  
>  	/* misc flags */
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
>