A floating point constant cast to an int was giving a false positive warning about unneeded cast to int. e.g.: (fwrq->m >= (int)2.412e8) && (fwrq->m <= (int)2.487e8)) Fix it. Though it's probably better to avoid float/double values that are cast to int at all. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 2287a0bca863..cbd99c22e2f6 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5673,7 +5673,8 @@ sub process { } # check for cast of C90 native int or longer types constants - if ($line =~ /(\(\s*$C90_int_types\s*\)\s*)($Constant)\b/) { + if ($line =~ /(\(\s*$C90_int_types\s*\)\s*)($Constant)\b/ && + $2 !~ /^$Float$/) { my $cast = $1; my $const = $2; if (WARN("TYPECAST_INT_CONSTANT", _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel