netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] Altera TSE: Fix DMA secriptor length initialization

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Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:37:29 -0500
From:	Vince Bridgers <vbridgers2013@...il.com>
To:	Tobias Klauser <tobias.klauser@...il.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	nios2-dev@...ts.rocketboards.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] Altera TSE: Fix DMA secriptor length initialization

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Tobias Klauser
<tobias.klauser@...il.com> wrote:
> sgdma_descrip is a function name as well as the name of a struct. In
> sgdma_initialize(), we should initialize the descriptor length field
> with the actual length of a descriptor not with the size of the
> function. In order to prevent such things from happening in the future,
> rename the function to sgdma_setup_descrip().
>
> Found by sparse which yields the following warning:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_sgdma.c:74:30: warning: expression using sizeof on a function
>
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
> ---
> v2: patchd rebase against current net tree
>

Thanks for the patch Tobias. Was the misspelling in the subject line
an oversight (secriptor -> descriptor) ?

All the best,

Vince
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