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Re: [RFC/RFT] p54: Fix sparse warnings

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On Friday 12 September 2008 20:16:03 Larry Finger wrote:
>  struct bootrec {
>  	__le32 code;
>  	__le32 len;
> -	u32 data[0];
> +	/* Most references to the data section that follows are for u32
> +	 * quantities; however, one is for an le16 quantity. The union
> +	 * below avoids a cast and makes the usage clearer. */
> +	union {
> +		u32 data[0];
> +		__le16 data16[0];
> +	};
>  } __attribute__((packed));

I suggest you change
	u32 data[0];
to
	__le32 data_le32[0];
and also add
	__be32 data_be32[0];
to the union. This avoids another few casts.
(Maybe you don't even need the __le32 variant. I didn't check all the code).

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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