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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John W Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	chunkeey@web.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] p54: Fix sparse warnings
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:36:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809122036.03553.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48cab1e3.m0lac7LoL3DFxIu6%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

On Friday 12 September 2008 20:16:03 Larry Finger wrote:
>  struct bootrec {
>  	__le32 code;
>  	__le32 len;
> -	u32 data[0];
> +	/* Most references to the data section that follows are for u32
> +	 * quantities; however, one is for an le16 quantity. The union
> +	 * below avoids a cast and makes the usage clearer. */
> +	union {
> +		u32 data[0];
> +		__le16 data16[0];
> +	};
>  } __attribute__((packed));

I suggest you change
	u32 data[0];
to
	__le32 data_le32[0];
and also add
	__be32 data_be32[0];
to the union. This avoids another few casts.
(Maybe you don't even need the __le32 variant. I didn't check all the code).

-- 
Greetings Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-12 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-12 18:16 [RFC/RFT] p54: Fix sparse warnings Larry Finger
2008-09-12 18:36 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2008-09-12 18:39   ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-12 18:52   ` Larry Finger
2008-09-13 12:40     ` Michael Buesch
2008-09-13 15:40       ` Larry Finger
2008-09-17 16:15         ` Pavel Roskin
2008-09-17 17:16           ` Larry Finger

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