[PATCH 2/4] simplefb: Add support for enumerating simplefb dt nodes in /chosen

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Thu Nov 13 00:28:25 PST 2014


Hi Geert,

On 11/13/2014 09:16 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
>>
>>> @@ -385,7 +386,37 @@ static struct platform_driver simplefb_driver = {
>>>         .probe = simplefb_probe,
>>>         .remove = simplefb_remove,
>>>  };
>>> -module_platform_driver(simplefb_driver);
>>> +
>>> +static int __init simplefb_init(void)
>>> +{
>>> +       int i, ret;
>>
>> unsigned int i;

Although you're right that it will never become negative, making this
unsigned really gains us nothing, and it is normal C programming
practice to use signed ints to loop over arrays even if the array
index never becomes negative. So I see no reason to change this.

Regards,

Hans



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