From 2a539345791c92f1eed10ccbb05f25656744c726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Prathamesh Patil <patilprathameshr@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 11:52:35 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] AP_Airspeed: corrected return type of uart::read()'

---
 libraries/AP_Airspeed/AP_Airspeed_NMEA.cpp | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libraries/AP_Airspeed/AP_Airspeed_NMEA.cpp b/libraries/AP_Airspeed/AP_Airspeed_NMEA.cpp
index 3e3d014266..d085e5bd99 100644
--- a/libraries/AP_Airspeed/AP_Airspeed_NMEA.cpp
+++ b/libraries/AP_Airspeed/AP_Airspeed_NMEA.cpp
@@ -73,8 +73,11 @@ bool AP_Airspeed_NMEA::get_airspeed(float &airspeed)
     uint16_t count = 0;
     int16_t nbytes = _uart->available();
     while (nbytes-- > 0) {
-        char c = _uart->read();
-        if (decode(c)) {
+        int16_t c = _uart->read();
+        if (c==-1) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (decode(char(c))) {
             _last_update_ms = now;
             if (_sentence_type == TYPE_VHW) {
                 sum += _speed;