[PATCH] staging: vt6655: preserve address space by not casting

From: Martin Kepplinger
Date: Fri Jun 13 2014 - 06:12:38 EST


Fix the sparse error: cast removes address space of expression.
---
Is that even correct? I haven't signed-off on it yet.
ethtool_ioctl() takes a (void *) as user data, dereferenced and assigend to u32.
applies to next-20140611

drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c b/drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c
index 1d3908d..15b2ee5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6655/device_main.c
@@ -3067,7 +3067,7 @@ static int device_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd) {
break;

case SIOCETHTOOL:
- return ethtool_ioctl(dev, (void *)rq->ifr_data);
+ return ethtool_ioctl(dev, &rq->ifr_data);
// All other calls are currently unsupported

default:
--
1.7.10.4

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