linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: Fix sparse warnings incorrect type assignment

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Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2017 20:23:04 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Andrea Ghittino <aghittino@...il.com>
Cc:     aditya.shankar@...rochip.com, ganesh.krishna@...rochip.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: Fix sparse warnings incorrect type
 assignment

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:11:21PM +0100, Andrea Ghittino wrote:
> Fixed sparse warnings
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2011:52: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2011:52:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_ext_params
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2011:52:    got restricted __le16 const [usertype] extended_ht_cap_info
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2012:51: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2012:51:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_tx_bf_cap
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2012:51:    got restricted __le32 const [usertype] tx_BF_cap_info
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2078:51: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2078:51:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_capa_info
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2078:51:    got restricted __le16 const [usertype] cap_info
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2083:52: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2083:52:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_ext_params
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2083:52:    got restricted __le16 const [usertype] extended_ht_cap_info
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2084:51: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2084:51:    expected unsigned int [unsigned] [assigned] [usertype] ht_tx_bf_cap
> drivers/staging/wilc1000//wilc_wfi_cfgoperations.c:2084:51:    got restricted __le32 const [usertype] tx_BF_cap_info
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Ghittino <aghittino@...il.com>
> ---
> Compile tested only

This commit doesn't tell me if you though about what you are doing at
all.  We get so many commits where people just randomly do random endian
things...  Did you think about this?  Could you resend with a better
commit message?

regards,
dan carpenter