The value passed by the two callers of the function is unsigned anyway. Making the parameter unsigned fixes the following warning when building with clang:
drivers/char/hpet.c:588:7: error: overflow converting case value to switch condition type (2149083139 to 18446744071563667459) [-Werror,-Wswitch] case HPET_INFO: ^ include/uapi/linux/hpet.h:18:19: note: expanded from macro 'HPET_INFO' ^ include/uapi/asm-generic/ioctl.h:77:28: note: expanded from macro '_IOR' ^ include/uapi/asm-generic/ioctl.h:66:2: note: expanded from macro '_IOC' (((dir) << _IOC_DIRSHIFT) | \ Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <m...@chromium.org> --- drivers/char/hpet.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/hpet.c b/drivers/char/hpet.c index 20b32bb8c2af..0d633b76c29e 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hpet.c +++ b/drivers/char/hpet.c @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ static inline unsigned long hpet_time_div(struct hpets *hpets, } static int -hpet_ioctl_common(struct hpet_dev *devp, int cmd, unsigned long arg, +hpet_ioctl_common(struct hpet_dev *devp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg, struct hpet_info *info) { struct hpet_timer __iomem *timer; -- 2.12.0.246.ga2ecc84866-goog