Re: [PATCH 4/5] drivers: net: usb: rtl8150: bug fixing and cleanup

From: Francois Romieu
Date: Sun May 19 2013 - 15:01:37 EST


Petko Manolov <petkan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> > > + usb_fill_control_urb(async_urb, dev->udev,
> > > + usb_sndctrlpipe(dev->udev, 0), (void *) &req->dr,
> >
> > Useless void * cast.
>
> Wrong. The compiler actually moans quite a lot:
>
> /usr/src/git/rtl8150/rtl8150.c: In function ?async_set_registers?:
> /usr/src/git/rtl8150/rtl8150.c:92:9: warning: passing argument 4 of ?usb_fill_control_urb? from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
> In file included from /usr/src/git/rtl8150/rtl8150.c:17:0:
> include/linux/usb.h:1440:20: note: expected ?unsigned char *? but argument is of type ?struct usb_ctrlrequest *?

Sorry, I confused it with transfer_buffer. Some drivers go through unsigned
char *, some widen it to void *.

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Ueimor
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