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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] staging: dgnc: switch timeout to signed type
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 07:21:26PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> On Fri, 29 May 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 06:41:28PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> > > The schedule_timeout*() helpers take the timeout as signed long, as
> > > ch_close_delay in struct channel_t was not used for other purposes its
> > > type was switched to signed long and the declarations fixed up.
> >
> > Uh, we never pass it to schedule_timeout etc and even if we did how
> > would that matter? It's either 250 or 0.
> >
> > What is the bug you are trying to fix and we can help you?
> >
> static code checkers being unhappy with type mismatch
> automatic type conversion is ok if necessary but in this
> case it simply is not as the ch_close_delay is only being
> used in this one place so why not do it type clean ?

This seems like a pointless warning. What does the warning look like?
We pass ms to msecs_to_jiffies() and not to schedule_timeout() so it
seems like somewhere something is confused.

> I'll turn the question around - what reason would there be to
> go through type conversion if it is not needed ?

You can go crazy if you do ever pointless change which a static analysis
tool suggests...

Btw, Smatch says that "ms" is always 250 here, actually. I was guessing
earlier when I said it could be zero. Get a smarter static checker
which can read code. :P

regards,
dan carpenter



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