The patch titled drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c: fix unsigned return type has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-video-matrox-matroxfb_mavenc-fix-unsigned-return-type.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c: fix unsigned return type From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> The function has an unsigned return type, but returns a negative constant to indicate an error condition. The result of calling the function is only tested by comparison to 0, and thus unsigned is not needed and can be dropped from the return type. A sematic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @exists@ identifier f; constant C; @@ unsigned f(...) { <+... * return -C; ...+> } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c~drivers-video-matrox-matroxfb_mavenc-fix-unsigned-return-type drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c --- a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c~drivers-video-matrox-matroxfb_mavenc-fix-unsigned-return-type +++ a/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static int matroxfb_PLL_mavenclock(const return fxtal * (*feed) / (*in) * ctl->den; } -static unsigned int matroxfb_mavenclock(const struct matrox_pll_ctl* ctl, +static int matroxfb_mavenclock(const struct matrox_pll_ctl *ctl, unsigned int htotal, unsigned int vtotal, unsigned int* in, unsigned int* feed, unsigned int* post, unsigned int* htotal2) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from julia@xxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-mmc-host-imxmmcc-adjust-confusing-if-indentation.patch fs-btrfs-use-memdup_user.patch fs-btrfs-use-err_cast.patch drivers-video-matrox-matroxfb_mavenc-fix-unsigned-return-type.patch arch-x86-kernel-cpu-cpufreq-fix-unsigned-return-type.patch net-9p-trans_fdc-fix-unsigned-return-type.patch drivers-i2c-busses-i2c-pasemic-fix-unsigned-return-type.patch drivers-atm-firestreamc-fix-unsigned-return-type.patch drivers-net-wireless-iwlwifi-iwl-agnc-fix-return-value-from-an-unsigned-function.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