Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: vt6655: update out-of-date function declaration

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:35:02PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 10:19:31PM -0400, James A Shackleford wrote:
> > The function iwctl_siwscan() is defined in iwctl.c as:
> > int iwctl_siwscan(struct net_device *dev,
> > 		  struct iw_request_info *info,
> > 		  struct iw_point *wrq,
> > 		  char *extra)
> > {
> >   ...
> > 
> > This patch updates iwctl.h so that the type of the 3rd parameter (*wqr) in the
> > function declaration matches the definition.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James A Shackleford <shack@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/vt6655/iwctl.h |    2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6655/iwctl.h b/drivers/staging/vt6655/iwctl.h
> > index 871bd7c..4ad5e48 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/vt6655/iwctl.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6655/iwctl.h
> > @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ int iwctl_giwscan(struct net_device *dev,
> >  
> >  int iwctl_siwscan(struct net_device *dev,
> >  		  struct iw_request_info *info,
> > -		  struct iw_param *wrq,
> > +		  struct iw_point *wrq,
> >  		  char *extra);
> >  
> 
> Why isn't the compiler catching this issue?  Should something include
> this .h file?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

The declaration for iwctl_siwscan(), along with quite a few other declarations,
should be removed from this header and their functions made static within
iwctl.c  I will put another patch together that further cleans this up.
 
-James
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