linux-kernel - [PATCH -next] qlcnic: fix compiler warning

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Message-ID: <20140109155908.GA4351@reykholt.kaiser.cx>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jan 2014 16:59:09 +0100
From:	Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>
To:	Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@...gic.com>,
	Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@...gic.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH -next] qlcnic: fix compiler warning

Add an explicit cast to fix the following warning
(seen on Debian Wheezy, gcc 4.7.2)

CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/trx.o
    drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c: In function ‘qlcnic_send_filter’:
    drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c:349:3: warning:
    passing argument 2 of ‘ether_addr_equal’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
    In file included from include/linux/if_vlan.h:16:0,
    from drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c:9:
    include/linux/etherdevice.h:244:20: note: expected ‘const u8 *’ but argument is of type ‘u64 *’

Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@...ser.cx>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c
index 6373f60..3557154 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlcnic/qlcnic_io.c
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static void qlcnic_send_filter(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter,
 	head = &(adapter->fhash.fhead[hindex]);
 
 	hlist_for_each_entry_safe(tmp_fil, n, head, fnode) {
-		if (ether_addr_equal(tmp_fil->faddr, &src_addr) &&
+		if (ether_addr_equal(tmp_fil->faddr, (const u8 *)&src_addr) &&
 		    tmp_fil->vlan_id == vlan_id) {
 			if (jiffies > (QLCNIC_READD_AGE * HZ + tmp_fil->ftime))
 				qlcnic_change_filter(adapter, &src_addr,
-- 
1.7.10.4

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