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 ? I'll turn the question around - what reason would there be to go through type conversion if it is not needed ? thx! hofrat _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel