linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix type assignment warning

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Message-Id: <20170330071602.4598-1-alex.david.wilson@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2017 01:16:02 -0600
From:   Alex Wilson <alex.david.wilson@...il.com>
To:     thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alex Wilson <alex.david.wilson@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix type assignment warning

Sparse spits out a warning that a __be16 was being assigned to a u16.
Change the type of txbuf16 to __be16 b/c it's a restricted type and
prevents mixing endianness.

Signed-off-by: Alex Wilson <alex.david.wilson@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c
index 3475b1b8081f..a80b5d115ff8 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(fbtft_write_reg8_bus9);
 int fbtft_write_vmem16_bus8(struct fbtft_par *par, size_t offset, size_t len)
 {
 	u16 *vmem16;
-	u16 *txbuf16 = par->txbuf.buf;
+	__be16 *txbuf16 = par->txbuf.buf;
 	size_t remain;
 	size_t to_copy;
 	size_t tx_array_size;
-- 
2.12.1