Re: [PATCH] Staging: vt6656: Remove the ULONG_PTR and DWORD_PTRdefines from ttype.h

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 31 2010 - 14:36:20 EST


On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:23:21PM +0200, Roel Van Nyen wrote:
> I have re-done my patch and this time without any checkpatch.pl errors.

Well, some you can ignore:

>
> Remove DWORD_PTR and ULONG_PTR from ttype.h
>
> Signed-off-by: Roel Van Nyen <roel.vannyen@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vt6656/bssdb.c | 8 ++++----
> drivers/staging/vt6656/ttype.h | 4 ----
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/bssdb.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/bssdb.c
> index a9f68bd..024dff3 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/bssdb.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/bssdb.c
> @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ BOOL BSSbInsertToBSSList(void *hDeviceContext,
> unsigned int uLen = pRSNWPA->len + 2;
>
> if (uLen <= (uIELength -
> - (unsigned int) (ULONG_PTR) ((PBYTE) pRSNWPA - pbyIEs))) {
> + (unsigned int) (unsigned long) ((PBYTE) pRSNWPA - pbyIEs))) {

That's just horrible, move it to the right like it was, just don't add
the extra spaces where they are not needed. And think, why would you
want to cast from an unsigned long and then to an unsigned int,
something is really wrong with that code, it should be fixed properly.

Care to try again?

thanks,

greg k-h
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