The patch titled Subject: rtc: ds1685: remove superfluous checks for out-of-range u8 values has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rtc-ds1685-remove-superfluous-checks-for-out-of-range-u8-values.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/rtc-ds1685-remove-superfluous-checks-for-out-of-range-u8-values.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/rtc-ds1685-remove-superfluous-checks-for-out-of-range-u8-values.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: rtc: ds1685: remove superfluous checks for out-of-range u8 values drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c: In function `ds1685_rtc_read_alarm': drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c:402: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c:409: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c:416: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c: In function `ds1685_rtc_set_alarm': drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c:475: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c:478: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c:481: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type u8 cannot contain a value larger than 0xff, hence drop the checks. Wrapping the checks in unlikely() indicated some sense of humor, though ;-) Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c~rtc-ds1685-remove-superfluous-checks-for-out-of-range-u8-values drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c~rtc-ds1685-remove-superfluous-checks-for-out-of-range-u8-values +++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1685.c @@ -399,21 +399,21 @@ ds1685_rtc_read_alarm(struct device *dev * of this RTC chip. We check for it anyways in case support is * added in the future. */ - if (unlikely((seconds >= 0xc0) && (seconds <= 0xff))) + if (unlikely(seconds >= 0xc0)) alrm->time.tm_sec = -1; else alrm->time.tm_sec = ds1685_rtc_bcd2bin(rtc, seconds, RTC_SECS_BCD_MASK, RTC_SECS_BIN_MASK); - if (unlikely((minutes >= 0xc0) && (minutes <= 0xff))) + if (unlikely(minutes >= 0xc0)) alrm->time.tm_min = -1; else alrm->time.tm_min = ds1685_rtc_bcd2bin(rtc, minutes, RTC_MINS_BCD_MASK, RTC_MINS_BIN_MASK); - if (unlikely((hours >= 0xc0) && (hours <= 0xff))) + if (unlikely(hours >= 0xc0)) alrm->time.tm_hour = -1; else alrm->time.tm_hour = ds1685_rtc_bcd2bin(rtc, hours, @@ -472,13 +472,13 @@ ds1685_rtc_set_alarm(struct device *dev, * field, and we only support four fields. We put the support * here anyways for the future. */ - if (unlikely((seconds >= 0xc0) && (seconds <= 0xff))) + if (unlikely(seconds >= 0xc0)) seconds = 0xff; - if (unlikely((minutes >= 0xc0) && (minutes <= 0xff))) + if (unlikely(minutes >= 0xc0)) minutes = 0xff; - if (unlikely((hours >= 0xc0) && (hours <= 0xff))) + if (unlikely(hours >= 0xc0)) hours = 0xff; alrm->time.tm_mon = -1; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch rtc-ds1685-remove-superfluous-checks-for-out-of-range-u8-values.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html