[PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: Use little-endian type

Frans Klaver fransklaver at gmail.com
Wed Jul 12 05:26:08 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Aviv Palivoda <palaviv at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fix the following sparse warning:
> drivers/staging//wlan-ng/prism2sta.c:1691:20: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
>
> (a) Change struct hfa384x_authenticate_station_data status member type to __le16.
> (b) All assignment to status are converted to little-endian prior to assignment.

Why is this the right thing to do?

Frans


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