Hello Andrew Lunn, The patch 2b2427d06426: "phy: micrel: Add ethtool statistics counters" from Dec 30, 2015, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/net/phy/micrel.c:609 kszphy_get_stat() warn: unsigned 'val' is never less than zero. drivers/net/phy/micrel.c 602 static u64 kszphy_get_stat(struct phy_device *phydev, int i) 603 { 604 struct kszphy_hw_stat stat = kszphy_hw_stats[i]; 605 struct kszphy_priv *priv = phydev->priv; 606 u64 val; 607 608 val = phy_read(phydev, stat.reg); 609 if (val < 0) { ^^^^^^^ Unpossible! 610 val = UINT64_MAX; 611 } else { 612 val = val & ((1 << stat.bits) - 1); 613 priv->stats[i] += val; 614 val = priv->stats[i]; 615 } 616 617 return val; 618 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html