[PATCH] cfi.h: quiet sparse noise

H Hartley Sweeten hartleys at visionengravers.com
Fri Jan 15 13:09:32 EST 2010


cfi.h: quiet sparse noise

In the inline function cfi_build_cmd_addr, the cast of cmd_ofs to an
uint8_t produces a sparse warning of the type:

warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (2aa becomes aa)

Quiet the warning by masking cmd_ofs with 0xff and remove the cast.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten at visionengravers.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>

---

diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h b/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h
index df89f42..a4eefc5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ static inline uint32_t cfi_build_cmd_addr(uint32_t cmd_ofs,
 	 * and 32bit devices on 16 bit busses
 	 * set the low bit of the alternating bit sequence of the address.
 	 */
-	if (((type * interleave) > bankwidth) && ((uint8_t)cmd_ofs == 0xaa))
+	if (((type * interleave) > bankwidth) && ((cmd_ofs & 0xff) == 0xaa))
 		addr |= (type >> 1)*interleave;
 
 	return  addr;



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