While the endiannes is being handled correctly sparse was unhappy with the missing annotation as be16_to_cpu() expects a __be16. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> --- Problem reported by sparse As far as I understand sparse here the __force is actually the only solution possible to inform sparse that the endiannes handling is ok Patch was compile-tested with. x86_64_defconfig + FIELDBUS_DEV=m, HMS_ANYBUSS_BUS=m Patch is against 5.1-rc6 (localversion-next is next-20190426) drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c index 6227daf..278acac 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c +++ b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/anybuss/host.c @@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ anybuss_host_common_probe(struct device *dev, add_device_randomness(&val, 4); regmap_bulk_read(cd->regmap, REG_FIELDBUS_TYPE, &fieldbus_type, sizeof(fieldbus_type)); - fieldbus_type = be16_to_cpu(fieldbus_type); + fieldbus_type = be16_to_cpu((__force __be16)fieldbus_type); dev_info(dev, "Fieldbus type: %04X", fieldbus_type); regmap_bulk_read(cd->regmap, REG_MODULE_SW_V, val, 2); dev_info(dev, "Module SW version: %02X%02X", -- 2.1.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
