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

[Jes Sorensen]

Krzysztof Konopko <kris@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 but were declared as
> unsigned short.  This was reported by sparse:
>
>   rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16
>   rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16
>   rtw_wlan_util.c:1546:25: warning: cast to restricted __le16
>
> This patch updates the types of the fields in `AC_param` and
> `ADDBA_request` structs to be consistent with relevant structs in
> include/linux/ieee80211.h.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Konopko <kris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/wifi.h | 14 +++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Well the u8 change is really in the nit picking space, but I am fine
with that too.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/wifi.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/wifi.h
> index fd3da3b..25d573c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/wifi.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/include/wifi.h
> @@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
>  
>  struct AC_param {
> -	unsigned char		ACI_AIFSN;
> -	unsigned char		CW;
> -	unsigned short	TXOP_limit;
> +	u8			ACI_AIFSN;
> +	u8			CW;
> +	__le16			TXOP_limit;
>  }  __packed;
>  
>  struct WMM_para_element {
> @@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ struct WMM_para_element {
>  }  __packed;
>  
>  struct ADDBA_request {
> -	unsigned char		dialog_token;
> -	unsigned short	BA_para_set;
> -	unsigned short	BA_timeout_value;
> -	unsigned short	BA_starting_seqctrl;
> +	u8		dialog_token;
> +	__le16		BA_para_set;
> +	__le16		BA_timeout_value;
> +	__le16		BA_starting_seqctrl;
>  }  __packed;
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