linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

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Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:24:12 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Krzysztof Konopko <kris@...agma.com>
Cc:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 12:35 +0100, Krzysztof Konopko wrote:

> I'm _far_ from being a wireless expert but doesn't data coming out of
> the wire/air have the endianess defined explicitly?  And both `AC_param`
> and `ADDBA_request` come out of air?

In general, data in 802.11 frames is little endian. Both of these would
appear to correspond to data received/sent over the air, so __le would
make sense.

johannes


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