[RFC: sound/i2c/cs8427] clang warns about cast to signed char

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:10:28 +0200,
Philipp K wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried compiling the cs8247 sound module with clang and hit the
> following warning:
> 
> sound/i2c/cs8427.c:141:31: warning: implicit conversion from 'int' to
> 'char' changes value from 160 to -96 [-Wconstant-conversion]
>         data[0] = CS8427_REG_AUTOINC | CS8427_REG_CORU_DATABUF;
>                 ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> data is a char array, and CS8427_REG_AUTOINC is defined as 0x80 (dec
> 128) which is too big for a (signed) char.
> 
> Looking at other code in the same file, we usually use unsigned chars.
> 
> So is there a reason for data being signed in this case? Otherwise we
> could just change data to unsigned char and be on the safe side.

No any reason I know of.  It must be just an old convention.

> If you want I can send in a patch.

Yes, please.


thanks,

Takashi