netdev - RE: [PATCH] clean up sparse cast warning in do_ip

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:54:02 +0000
From:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	'David Miller' <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"karoly.kemeny@...il.com" <karoly.kemeny@...il.com>
CC:	"jmorris@...ei.org" <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] clean up sparse cast warning in do_ip_getsockopt

From: David Miller
> From: Karoly Kemeny <karoly.kemeny@...il.com>
> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 13:30:17 +0200
> 
> > There is a sparse warning because of the implicit pointer cast in
> > do_ip_getsockopt.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Karoly Kemeny <karoly.kemeny@...il.com>
> 
> Please format your subject line correctly, it should be of the form:
> 
> 	[PATCH] ${SUBSYSTEM}: Description.
> 
> Your's is missing the subsystem prefix, which in this case should
> be "ipv4: "
> 
> > -		msg.msg_control = optval;
> > +		msg.msg_control = (__force void*) optval;
> 
> Please put a space between "void" and "*" in the cast.

And remove the one after the ')' ?

	David



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