Re: [PATCH] staging: rts5208: remove always true comparison

From: Sudip Mukherjee
Date: Fri May 15 2015 - 06:17:11 EST


On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 06:18:59PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 07:55:59PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > the if comparison is always true as anything bitwise and-ing with 0x1E
> > can never be equal to 0x03.
> >
> > Fixes bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69881
> >
>
> It doesn't fix anything though, it just silences the warning. Warnings
> are nice because they let you know that the code is buggy. It's better
> to leave them there instead of making the bugs more complicated to find.

but I am not seeing any warnings. I tried with make W=1, tried with
sparse, but still no warning. am i missing something?

regards
sudip

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