Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: Improve readability and fix sparse warnings: cast from restricted __le16

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Apr 28 2017 - 06:30:41 EST


On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 11:55:23PM +0100, Tuomo Rinne wrote:
> This patch fixes following sparse warnings:
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u//r8192U_dm.c:2307:49: warning: cast from restricted __le16
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u//r8192U_dm.c:2308:44: warning: cast from restricted __le16
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u//r8192U_dm.c:2309:44: warning: cast from restricted __le16
>
> In order to avoid the warnings the u4bAcParam variable is constructed
> using the cpu's endianness and in case of big endian architectures the
> variable is converted back to little endian before passed to write_nic_dword
> function.
>
> Also the patch improves readability by getting rid of unnecessary scope
> and splitting complex variable construction to multiple lines.

Don't do multiple things in the same patch, please break this up into
different patches, each one doing only one thing.

thanks,

greg k-h