Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c unsigned comparison

[Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>]

On Saturday 12 November 2005 2:16 pm, Gabriel A. Devenyi wrote:
> It helps if I attach the patch.

And send it to the right places (copied, from MAINTAINERS).

> proc_write_brn, and proc_write_disp both use a parameter "count" to store the result from parse_arg.
> The return of parse_arg is an int, but count is declared as an unsigned int, and later checked versus zero,
> which is meaningless. This patch fixes the declaration of count in both functions.
> 
> Thanks to LinuxICC (http://linuxicc.sf.net)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel A. Devenyi <ace@staticwave.ca>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c
> index fec895a..9dfd0cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c
> @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ proc_read_brn(char *page, char **start, 
>  
>  static int
>  proc_write_brn(struct file *file, const char __user * buffer,
> -	       unsigned long count, void *data)
> +	       long count, void *data)
>  {
>  	int value;
>  
> @@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ proc_read_disp(char *page, char **start,
>   */
>  static int
>  proc_write_disp(struct file *file, const char __user * buffer,
> -		unsigned long count, void *data)
> +		long count, void *data)
>  {
>  	int value;
>  
> 
> 
> -- 
> Gabriel A. Devenyi
> ace@staticwave.ca
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