Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] iio: temperature: add driver support for ti tmp117

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Sun Apr 11 2021 - 14:07:46 EST


On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 5:53 PM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 23:51:47 +0530
> Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > TMP117 is a Digital temperature sensor with integrated Non-Volatile memory.
> > Add support for tmp117 driver in iio subsystem.

...

> > + off = clamp(val, S16_MIN, S16_MAX);
>
> With a C=1 W=1 build (sparse an lots of warnings) this causes problems because
> the S16_MIN and S16_MAX are as you might imagine s16 values whereas val is
> an int. I've added casts to force S16_MIN and S16_MAX to ints as well.

Good point, but better is to use clamp_t(s16, ...) rather than explicit casting.
I always consider explicit casting in C (and esp. in Linux kernel) is
a red flag. Should be really rarely needed.

> > + if (off == data->calibbias)
> > + return 0;

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko