Re: [PATCH 1/3] eeprom: at25: Drop obsolete cast in at25_ee_write()

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Oct 10 2018 - 10:42:23 EST


Hi Arnd,

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 4:01 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10/10/18, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Since commit 01973a01f9ec34b7 ("eeprom: at25: remove nvmem regmap
> > dependency") changed the type of "off" from "loff_t" to "unsigned int",
> > there is no longer a need to cast it to "unsigned".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/misc/eeprom/at25.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at25.c b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at25.c
> > index 840afb398f9e4c88..7707d3fb49b526d9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/misc/eeprom/at25.c
> > +++ b/drivers/misc/eeprom/at25.c
> > @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int at25_ee_write(void *priv, unsigned int off,
> > void *val, size_t count)
> > do {
> > unsigned long timeout, retries;
> > unsigned segment;
> > - unsigned offset = (unsigned) off;
> > + unsigned offset = off;
> > u8 *cp = bounce;
> > int sr;
> > u8 instr;
> > --
>
> This looks correct, but why not remove the extra variable completely
> and rename 'off' to 'offset'?

Thanks, good point. Will do.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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