linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: qrtr: Mark 'buf' as little endian

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Message-Id: <20170110.204554.1451403281569434916.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:45:54 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sboyd@...eaurora.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bjorn.andersson@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: qrtr: Mark 'buf' as little endian

From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Date: Mon,  9 Jan 2017 14:31:58 -0800

> Failure to mark this pointer as __le32 causes checkers like
> sparse to complain:
> 
> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:274:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:274:16:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident>
> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:274:16:    got restricted __le32 [usertype] <noident>
> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:275:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:275:16:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident>
> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:275:16:    got restricted __le32 [usertype] <noident>
> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:276:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:276:16:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident>
> net/qrtr/qrtr.c:276:16:    got restricted __le32 [usertype] <noident>
> 
> Silence it.
> 
> Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>

Applied, thanks.