RE: [PATCH] staging: unisys: fix sparse warnings

From: Kershner, David A
Date: Tue Mar 07 2017 - 07:49:46 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Ghittino [mailto:aghittino@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, March 4, 2017 12:21 PM
> To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Kershner, David A
> <David.Kershner@xxxxxxxxxx>; gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; *S-Par-
> Maintainer <SParMaintainer@xxxxxxxxxx>; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] staging: unisys: fix sparse warnings
>
> Sparse generates two warnings related to incorrect type in assignment.
> This patch changes the types in the struct defined in unisys
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Ghittino <aghittino@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested it on s-Par and no problems.

> ---
> Compile tested only
>
> iochannel.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h
> b/drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h
> index 54f4900..41e5b4e 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/include/iochannel.h
> @@ -308,8 +308,8 @@ struct net_pkt_xmt {
> u8 valid; /* 1 = struct is valid - else ignore */
> u8 hrawoffv; /* 1 = hwrafoff is valid */
> u8 nhrawoffv; /* 1 = nhwrafoff is valid */
> - u16 protocol; /* specifies packet protocol */
> - u32 csum; /* value used to set skb->csum at IOPart */
> + __be16 protocol; /* specifies packet protocol */
> + __wsum csum; /* value used to set skb->csum at IOPart */
> u32 hrawoff; /* value used to set skb->h.raw at IOPart */
> /* hrawoff points to the start of the TRANSPORT LAYER
> HEADER */
> u32 nhrawoff; /* value used to set skb->nh.raw at IOPart */