Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: wlan-ng: introduce a macro read_u16

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On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 02:14:25PM +0100, Gioh Kim wrote:
> read_u16 is wrapper of le16_to_cpu to read u16 variable,
> rather than __le16.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.h | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.h b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.h
> index 88b979f..97ede25 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.h
> @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@
>  extern int prism2_reset_holdtime;
>  extern int prism2_reset_settletime;
>  
> +#define read_u16(x) ({ u32 __r = (u32)le16_to_cpu((__force __le16)(x)); \
> +			__r; })
> +

Eeek, no, this should not be needed at all, if the code is written
correctly.  Please fix things up to work properly, don't paper over them
with forced casts.

thanks,

greg k-h
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