Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:31:00 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: dwmw2@redhat.com
Cc: mtd@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: [patch]
Message-ID: <20030730163100.GC19356@fs.tum.de>
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gcc 3.3 correctly gives the following warning:

<--  snip  -->

...
  CC      drivers/mtd/ftl.o
drivers/mtd/ftl.c: In function `scan_header':
drivers/mtd/ftl.c:191: warning: comparison is always false due to 
limited range 
...

<--  snip  -->

Looking at the code it seems gcc is correct, a 16bit number can _never_
be > 65536.

The following patch removes this comparison:


--- linux-2.6.0-test2-full/drivers/mtd/ftl.c.old	2003-07-30 13:04:05.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.0-test2-full/drivers/mtd/ftl.c	2003-07-30 13:04:13.000000000 +0200
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
 	printk(KERN_NOTICE "ftl_cs: FTL header not found.\n");
 	return -ENOENT;
     }
-    if ((le16_to_cpu(header.NumEraseUnits) > 65536) || header.BlockSize != 9 ||
+    if (header.BlockSize != 9 ||
 	(header.EraseUnitSize < 10) || (header.EraseUnitSize > 31) ||
 	(header.NumTransferUnits >= le16_to_cpu(header.NumEraseUnits))) {
 	printk(KERN_NOTICE "ftl_cs: FTL header corrupt!\n");


I've tested the compilation with 2.6.0-test2 and 2.4.22-pre9.


cu
Adrian

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