Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: ieee80211: Silence sparse endianness warning

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon May 25 2015 - 12:35:39 EST


On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:00:42PM -0300, Gaston Gonzalez wrote:
> Silence the following sparse warning:
>
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:663:32: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:663:32: expected restricted __le16 [usertype] frame_ctl
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c:663:32: got int
>
> Signed-off-by: Gaston Gonzalez <gascoar@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
> index d2e8b12..7dd8442 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
> @@ -660,2 +660,2 @@ inline struct sk_buff *ieee80211_authentication_req(struct ieee80211_network *be
> auth = (struct ieee80211_authentication *)
> skb_put(skb, sizeof(struct ieee80211_authentication));
>
> - auth->header.frame_ctl = IEEE80211_STYPE_AUTH;
> + auth->header.frame_ctl = cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_STYPE_AUTH);
> if (challengelen) auth->header.frame_ctl |= IEEE80211_FCTL_WEP;
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is also wrong then.

regards,
dan carpenter

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