linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the cifs tree

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Message-ID: <20110120202050.0bc68484@corrin.poochiereds.net>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:20:50 -0500
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the cifs tree

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:05:24 +1100
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the cifs tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning:
> 
> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c: In function 'CIFSSMBEcho':
> fs/cifs/cifssmb.c:740: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type
> 
> Introduced by commit 766fdbb57fdb1e53bc34c431103e95383d7f13ba ("cifs: add
> ability to send an echo request").
> 

Oh duh -- <forehead slap>...

        smb->hdr.WordCount = cpu_to_le16(1);

...and WordCount is u8. I'll send Steve a fix tomorrow...

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>

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