netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] batman-adv: count_real_packets() in batman-adv assumes char is signed

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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:59:15 +0200
From:	Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de>,
	Simon Wunderlich <siwu@....tu-chemnitz.de>,
	b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] batman-adv: count_real_packets() in batman-adv assumes char is signed

David Howells wrote:
> count_real_packets() in batman-adv assumes char is signed, and returns -1
> through it:
> 
> net/batman-adv/routing.c: In function 'receive_bat_packet':
> net/batman-adv/routing.c:739: warning: comparison is always false due to
> limited range of data type
> 
> Use int instead.
> 

[...]
> -static char count_real_packets(struct ethhdr *ethhdr,
> -			       struct batman_packet *batman_packet,
> -			       struct hard_iface *if_incoming)
> +static int count_real_packets(struct ethhdr *ethhdr,
> +			      struct batman_packet *batman_packet,
> +			      struct hard_iface *if_incoming)
>  {


This one doesn't apply on linux-next/net-next-2.6, but I will fix it by hand.

Thanks,
	Sven

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