On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 16:34 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Sparse checking results in the following warnings:
>
> CHECK drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
> drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:3932:17: warning: cast removes
> address space of expression
> drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:3933:31: warning: incorrect type
> in argument 1 (different address spaces)
[...]
> - DBG_88E("[%s] extra = %s\n", __func__, (char *)wrqu->data.pointer);
> - if (!memcmp(wrqu->data.pointer, "status", 6)) {
> + DBG_88E("[%s] extra = %s\n", __func__, (__force char *)wrqu->data.pointer);
> + if (!memcmp((__force const char *)wrqu->data.pointer, "status", 6)) {
[...]
This is hiding the problem, not fixing it.
This private interface needs to be removed anyway.
Ben.
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