Hi Joseph, tested your patch and didn't observe a problem.
Thanks for your help :-) Marcus > Joseph Wright <rjosephwri...@gmail.com> hat am 16. Juli 2017 um 16:48 > geschrieben: > > > Error should be checked with IS_ERR after calling kthread_run() > instead of comparing the returned pointer to an int. > > Found by sparse warning: > > incompatible types for operation (<) > left side has type struct task_struct *tx_task_struct > right side has type int > > Signed-off-by: Joseph Wright <rjosephwri...@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c > b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c > index 46461b4..4f724a5 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c > @@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ static int pi433_probe(struct spi_device *spi) > device->tx_task_struct = kthread_run(pi433_tx_thread, > device, > "pi433_tx_task"); > - if (device->tx_task_struct < 0) > + if (IS_ERR(device->tx_task_struct)) > { > dev_dbg(device->dev, "start of send thread failed"); > goto send_thread_failed; > -- > 2.9.3 > > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel