netdev - Re: [PATCH] clean up sparse cast warning in do_ip

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:22:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	karoly.kemeny@...il.com
Cc:	jmorris@...ei.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean up sparse cast warning in do_ip_getsockopt

From: Karoly Kemeny <karoly.kemeny@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:30:17 +0200

> There is a sparse warning because of the implicit pointer cast in
> do_ip_getsockopt.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karoly Kemeny <karoly.kemeny@...il.com>

Please format your subject line correctly, it should be of the form:

	[PATCH] ${SUBSYSTEM}: Description.

Your's is missing the subsystem prefix, which in this case should
be "ipv4: "

> -		msg.msg_control = optval;
> +		msg.msg_control = (__force void*) optval;

Please put a space between "void" and "*" in the cast.
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