On 02/10/2017 08:08 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 08:51:55PM -0700, Perry Hooker wrote:
This patch fixes the following sparse warning:
drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops_linux.c:212:33: warning: cast to restricted __le32
Signed-off-by: Perry Hooker <perry.hooker@xxxxxxxxx>
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drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops_linux.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Does not apply to my tree :(
That is good. Yes the patch silenced the Sparse warning, but it would BREAK the
driver on every big-endian machine. Variable pbuf is a pointer to a string of
bytes *in little-endian order* that is to be converted into a cpu-ordered 32-bit
quantity. The correct way to silence the warning is to make sure the compiler
understands what *(pbuf + 1) really is.
BTW, that driver has been tested on BE hardware. Please be careful about endian
changes.
NACK.
Larry
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