On Wed, 27 May 2015, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 05/27/2015, 08:56 AM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > > On Mon, 11 May 2015, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > >> On 05/11/2015, 07:52 AM, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > >>> klp_initialized() should return bool but is actually returning > >>> struct kobject * - convert it to a boolean explicitly. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hof...@osadl.org> > >> > >> Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby <jsl...@suse.cz> > >> > > sorry for the noise - discussions about a similar "cleanup" in RCU > > resulted Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> clarifying the matter - this > > explicit conversion makes static code checkers happy but is not > > needed for gcc (or C for that mater) - see > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/24/47 > > and ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (c99) 6.8.6.4 subclause 3) > > Oh yes and I seem to be inconsistent with replies: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/26/90 > > > hofrat > > You? Nuremberg, 2010, Stanse? > Nop - coccinelle scripts - but I guess other static code checkers would have that issue as well if they look at types of variables and not take possible implicit conversions into account.
stanse is on my TODO list for SIL2LinuxMP (formal qualification of Linux according to IEC 61508 Ed 2 to Systematic Capability level SC 2) thx! hofrat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
