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Date:	Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:37:30 +0200
From:	Piotr Witoslawski <pwitos@...il.com>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Yannis Damigos <giannis.damigos@...il.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: fix "warning: cast to
 restricted __le16"

This patch fixes the sparse warning: "cast to restricted __le16" reported
for rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723au_xmit.c

Signed-off-by: Piotr Witoslawski <pwitos@...il.com>
---
v2: Changing pointer type instead of casting, as suggested by Jes Sorensen <jes.sorensen@...hat.com>

 drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723au_xmit.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723au_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723au_xmit.c
index 1759487..967e7de 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723au_xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/hal/rtl8723au_xmit.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static int urb_zero_packet_chk(struct rtw_adapter *padapter, int sz)
 
 static void rtl8192cu_cal_txdesc_chksum(struct tx_desc	*ptxdesc)
 {
-		u16	*usPtr = (u16 *)ptxdesc;
+		__le16	*usPtr = (__le16 *)ptxdesc;
 		u32 count = 16;		/*  (32 bytes / 2 bytes per XOR) => 16 times */
 		u32 index;
 		u16 checksum = 0;
-- 
2.0.5

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