linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8723au: os_intfs: fixed case statement is variable issue

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Message-ID: <1471176951.5903.6.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Sun, 14 Aug 2016 14:15:51 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, sunbing <sunbing@...flag-linux.com>,
	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Larry.Finger@...inger.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sunbing.linux@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8723au: os_intfs: fixed case statement is
 variable issue


> It's a sparse defect.
> 
> Try again after patching sparse with Jes' patch:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparse&m=147091200720267&w=3

Mine, not Jes's ;-)

But there's another patch going into the kernel to fix it:

https://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/byteswap-dont-use-__builtin_bswap-with-sparse.patch

johannes