Re: [PATCH] staging: wlan-ng: resolve sparse endianness error.

From: Matthew Giassa
Date: Mon Nov 06 2017 - 10:32:18 EST


* Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2017-11-03 12:49:46 +0100]:

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:06:18PM -0700, Matthew Giassa wrote:
Adding le16_to_cpu conversion in prism2sta.c, to resolve outstanding
sparse errors as noted in the current TODO in staging-next. Original
error:

CHECK drivers/staging//wlan-ng/prism2usb.c
drivers/staging//wlan-ng/prism2sta.c:1450:29: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
drivers/staging//wlan-ng/prism2sta.c:1450:29: expected unsigned short [unsigned] [usertype] link_status_new
drivers/staging//wlan-ng/prism2sta.c:1450:29: got restricted __le16 [usertype] linkstatus

Sparse error no longer present after change.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Giassa <matthew@xxxxxxxxxx>
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drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

This does not apply to my tree at all :(

Pardon. Duplicate of patch that had already been submitted, which Dan C.
noted. Patch can be discarded.