Re: [Patch] Signdness issue in drivers/scsi/osst.c

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Aug 20 2006 - 13:54:50 EST


Ar Sad, 2006-08-19 am 21:19 +0200, ysgrifennodd Eric Sesterhenn:
> Hi,
>
> another signdness warning from gcc 4.1
>
> drivers/scsi/osst.c:5154: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
>
> The problem is that blk is defined as unsigned, but all usages of it
> are normal int cases. osst_get_frame_position() and osst_get_sector()
> return ints and can return negative values. If blk stays an unsigned int,
> the error check is useless.


Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>

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