Hello Uwe Kleine-König, The patch 501f98266cad: "rtc: ds1307: rx8130: honor Voltage Loss Flag when reading the time" from Jan 25, 2019, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c:314 ds1307_set_time() warn: this cast is a no-op drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c 304 result = regmap_bulk_write(ds1307->regmap, chip->offset, regs, 305 sizeof(regs)); 306 if (result) { 307 dev_err(dev, "%s error %d\n", "write", result); 308 return result; 309 } 310 311 if (ds1307->type == rx_8130) { 312 /* clear Voltage Loss Flag as data is available now */ 313 result = regmap_write(ds1307->regmap, RX8130_REG_FLAG, --> 314 ~(u8)RX8130_REG_FLAG_VLF); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ RX8130_REG_FLAG_VLF is 0x2. The cast to u8 doesn't change anything because it gets type promoted to int. I don't know what was intended. 315 if (result) { 316 dev_err(dev, "%s error %d\n", "write", result); 317 return result; 318 } 319 } 320 321 return 0; 322 } regards, dan carpenter