Re: [PATCH] staging: crystalhd: fix signed bug

From: Jarod Wilson
Date: Tue Sep 28 2010 - 15:01:58 EST


On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:56:51PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> chd_dec_major is unsigned, so check chd_dec_major < 0 doesn't make sense.
> Since it is used as signed, declare it as int.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>

Indeed, Bad Things here when we try to store the ret from register_chrdev
in an unsigned int and test it for < 0...

Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>

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