netdev - Re: [PATCH] ewrk3: silence GCC warning

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Date:	Sun, 25 Nov 2012 11:45:43 +0100
From:	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ewrk3: silence GCC warning

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> Building ewrk3.o triggers this GCC warning:
>     drivers/net/ethernet/dec/ewrk3.c: In function '__check_irq':
>     drivers/net/ethernet/dec/ewrk3.c:1915:1: warning: return from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
>
> This can be trivially fixed by changing the 'irq' parameter from int to
> byte (which is the alias for unsigned char for module parameters).
>
> While we're touching this code also drop an outdated comment, that
> should have been dropped with the patch named "MODULE_PARM conversions"
> from early 2005.

Please send this change as an additional patch.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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