On 12/6/20 11:45, Puranjay Mohan wrote:
> Callers of pci_find_capability should save the return value in u8.
> change type of variables from int to u8 to match the specification.
I did not understand this, pci_find_capability() does not return u8.
what is it that we are achieving by changing the variable type ?
This patch will probably also generate type mismatch warning with
certain static analyzers.
> Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c | 2 +-
> drivers/block/skd_main.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c
> index 153e2cdecb4d..da57d37c6d20 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c
> @@ -3936,7 +3936,7 @@ static DEFINE_HANDLER(7);
>
> static void mtip_disable_link_opts(struct driver_data *dd, struct pci_dev *pdev)
> {
> - int pos;
> + u8 pos;
> unsigned short pcie_dev_ctrl;
>
> pos = pci_find_capability(pdev, PCI_CAP_ID_EXP);
> diff --git a/drivers/block/skd_main.c b/drivers/block/skd_main.c
> index a962b4551bed..16d59569129b 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/skd_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/skd_main.c
> @@ -3136,7 +3136,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, skd_pci_tbl);
>
> static char *skd_pci_info(struct skd_device *skdev, char *str)
> {
> - int pcie_reg;
> + u8 pcie_reg;
>
> strcpy(str, "PCIe (");
> pcie_reg = pci_find_capability(skdev->pdev, PCI_CAP_ID_EXP);
