Re: [PATCH] greybus: audio: Fix sparse warning.

[Dan Carpenter]

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 09:46:24AM +0530, Rajat Asthana wrote:
> Enforce int type on SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_MIXER to fix sparse warning:
> > warning: restricted snd_ctl_elem_iface_t degrades to integer
> 
> The iface field in the gb_audio_control struct is of type __u8, but the
> values stored in it are of type int. So on conversion they are degraded.
> Adding (__force int) will enforce them not to be degraded.
> 

The patch is fine, but the commit message is not very great.  This
patch doesn't "enforce" anything or affect the compiled code at all,
it just silences a Sparse warning.  Here is a better commit message.

  Sparse complains that:

    warning: restricted snd_ctl_elem_iface_t degrades to integer

  I have looked at this code, and the code is fine as-is.  Normally
  we would frown on using the __force directive to silence Sparse
  warnings but in this case it's fine.  Case statements can't be
  made into __bitwise types.  We also can't change the type of
  "ctl->iface" either because that is part of the user space API.

  So just add a (__force int) to make the warning go away.

regards,
dan carpenter