Re: [PATCH 5/8] drivers/atm/firestream.c: Fix unsigned return type

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Sep 06 2010 - 21:40:02 EST


From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 21:00:23 +0200

> The function has an unsigned return type, but returns a negative constant
> to indicate an error condition. The result of calling the function is
> always stored in a variable of type (signed) int, and thus unsigned can be
> dropped from the return type.
>
> A sematic match that finds this problem is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
...
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx>

Applied.
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