Re: [patch 3/3] d80211: silence sparse warning: bad constant expression

[David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:56:07PM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 13:11:02 -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
> > --- wireless-dev.orig/net/d80211/ieee80211_sta.c
> > +++ wireless-dev/net/d80211/ieee80211_sta.c
> > @@ -930,8 +930,8 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_auth(struc
> >  		printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: AP denied authentication (auth_alg=%d "
> >  		       "code=%d)\n", dev->name, ifsta->auth_alg, status_code);
> >  		if (status_code == WLAN_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED_AUTH_ALG) {
> > -			const int num_algs = 3;
> > -			u8 algs[num_algs];
> > +			u8 algs[3];
> > +			const int num_algs = ARRAY_SIZE(algs);
> 
> Wouldn't it be better just to use ARRAY_SIZE(algs) and get rid of
> num_algs completely?

I actually think the code reads slightly cleaner using num_algs, but
don't have a strong preference.  I'd be happy to make the change if
removing num_algs is preferred.

-David