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Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: rtl8723au: fix "incorrect type in assignment"

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Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:54:02PM +0200, Michel von Czettritz wrote:
>> Writing the output of cpu_to_le32 to an u32 or *(u32*) is an implicit
>> cast and results in an sparse warning.
>> 
>> Since param and mask won't be changed, the implicit cast can be avoided
>> by creating local variables.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Michel von Czettritz <michel.von.czettritz@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_cmd.c | 10 ++++++----
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_cmd.c
>> b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_cmd.c
>> index 1003365..a5e6726 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_cmd.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_cmd.c
>> @@ -115,9 +115,10 @@ exit:
>>  
>>  int rtl8723a_set_rssi_cmd(struct rtw_adapter *padapter, u32 *param)
>>  {
>> -	*((u32 *)param) = cpu_to_le32(*(param));
>> +	__le32 param_le;
>> +	param_le = cpu_to_le32(*(param));
>
> We shouldn't be passing param as a pointer anyway.  It should just be
> u32 cmd.
>
> 	__le32 cmd_le = cpu_to_le32(cmd);
>
> 	FillH2CCmd(padapter, RSSI_SETTING_EID, 3, (u8 *)&cmd_le);
>
> Fold it together with patch 1.

I agree, this would be cleaner.

Jes
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