Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Dec 13 2014 - 01:43:26 EST


On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 23:58 +0100, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:
> This patch changes the types of the struct fields involved to be
> little-endian which is what is received over the air and consistent with
> relevant structs in include/linux/ieee80211.h.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/wifi.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/wifi.h
[]
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> struct AC_param {
> unsigned char ACI_AIFSN;
> unsigned char CW;
> - unsigned short TXOP_limit;
> + __le16 TXOP_limit;
> } __packed;
>
> struct WMM_para_element {
> @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ struct WMM_para_element {
>
> struct ADDBA_request {
> unsigned char dialog_token;
> - unsigned short BA_para_set;
> - unsigned short BA_timeout_value;
> - unsigned short BA_starting_seqctrl;
> + __le16 BA_para_set;
> + __le16 BA_timeout_value;
> + __le16 BA_starting_seqctrl;
> } __packed;

If I did this, I would also change the
unsigned char uses to u8 at the same time.



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