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Re: [PATCH] drivers:staging:wlan-ng:hfa384x_usb: Fixing sparse warnings.

From Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] drivers:staging:wlan-ng:hfa384x_usb: Fixing sparse warnings.
Date 2017-04-28 12:10 +0200
Message-ID <tBb0B-5UI-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 06:15:40PM +0200, Karim Eshapa wrote:
> Fixing sparse warnings incorrect type assignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
> index 6134eba..cf6bf65 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
> @@ -3511,20 +3511,24 @@ static void hfa384x_int_rxmonitor(struct wlandevice *wlandev,
>  		datap = skb_put(skb, sizeof(struct p80211_caphdr));
>  		caphdr = (struct p80211_caphdr *)datap;
>  
> -		caphdr->version = htonl(P80211CAPTURE_VERSION);
> -		caphdr->length = htonl(sizeof(struct p80211_caphdr));
> +		caphdr->version = __be32_to_cpu(htonl(P80211CAPTURE_VERSION));
> +		caphdr->length = __be32_to_cpu( htonl(sizeof(
> +						struct p80211_caphdr)));

How do you know this is correct?  And why the odd ' ' usage?  I can't
take this patch for that reason alone...

thanks,

greg k-h

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[PATCH] drivers:staging:wlan-ng:hfa384x_usb: Fixing sparse warnings. Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@gmail.com> - 2017-04-26 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] drivers:staging:wlan-ng:hfa384x_usb: Fixing sparse  warnings. Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-04-28 12:10 +0200
  RE:[PATCH] drivers:staging:wlan-ng:hfa384x_usb: Fixing sparse warnings. Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 18:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] drivers:staging:wlan-ng:hfa384x_usb: Fixing sparse warnings. Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-08 00:20 +0200
  RE: [PATCH] drivers:staging:wlan-ng:hfa384x_usb: Fixing sparse warnings. Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 15:20 +0200

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