Re: [PATCH] staging:rtl8723au: Fix sparse warning cast to restricted __le16

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Nov 17 2014 - 20:59:52 EST


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 01:45:41AM +0000, Tobenna P. Igwe wrote:
> This patch fixes the following sparse warning:
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_bt-coexist.c:343:36: warning:
> cast to restricted __le16
>
> by using the le16_to_cpus function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tobenna P. Igwe <ptigwe@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_bt-coexist.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_bt-coexist.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_bt-coexist.c
> index d80ea4e..78665ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_bt-coexist.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723a_bt-coexist.c
> @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static u8 bthci_GetAssocInfo(struct rtw_adapter *padapter, u8 EntryNum)
> tempBuf, TotalLen-BaseMemoryShift);
>
> pAmpAsoc = (struct amp_assoc_structure *)tempBuf;
> - pAmpAsoc->Length = le16_to_cpu(pAmpAsoc->Length);
> + le16_to_cpus(&pAmpAsoc->Length);

This doesn't change the logic, and you should still have the same
warning. How about fixing up Length to be the proper endian type?

thanks,

greg k-h
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