The linkstatus variable in the info struct received as __le16 but handled in every other place in the driver as u16 Fix that and remove the sparse warning that occurred due to it: prism2sta.c:1450:29: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) prism2sta.c:1450:29: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [usertype] link_status_new prism2sta.c:1450:29: got restricted __le16 [usertype] linkstatus Signed-off-by: Aviya Erenfeld <aviyae42@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c index c9df450..070a237 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c @@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ static void prism2sta_inf_linkstatus(struct wlandevice *wlandev, { struct hfa384x *hw = wlandev->priv; - hw->link_status_new = inf->info.linkstatus.linkstatus; + hw->link_status_new = le16_to_cpu(inf->info.linkstatus.linkstatus); schedule_work(&hw->link_bh); } -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel