[PATCH 2/2] Fix endiannes error

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Fri Mar 3 11:29:07 UTC 2017


These patches look good but you need to resend with a correct subsystem
prefix in the subject.  It should be:

[PATCH 2/2] Staging: wlan-ng: Fix endiannes error

Hm...  Also "endiannes" doesn't look like correct spelling.  Just say
"endian".

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 09:30:12PM +0100, Adrien Descamps wrote:
> sparse report fixed:
> drivers/staging//wlan-ng//hfa384x_usb.c:3517:35: warning: restricted __be64 degrades to integer
> drivers/staging//wlan-ng//hfa384x_usb.c:3517:33: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging//wlan-ng//hfa384x_usb.c:3517:33:    expected restricted __be64 [usertype] mactime
> drivers/staging//wlan-ng//hfa384x_usb.c:3517:33:    got unsigned long long
> 
> Computation on the value should be done when in machine format, not in big endian format.
> Compile tested only.

Generally we like to put the "Compile tested only" bit under the ---
cut off so that our patches look more confident and authoritative.  ;)

> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrien Descamps <adrien.descamps at gmail.com>
> ---

Put it here.

>  drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 


regards,
dan carpenter



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