From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Rami Rosen <roszenrami@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
buytenh@marvell.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH ] [RESEND] mwl8: fix build warning.
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:57:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090421135716.GJ17805@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b25312890904210622v3b84eb45pdef0cb3bce253ba0@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:22:01PM +0300, Rami Rosen wrote:
> This patch fixes a build warning in mwl8.c.
> (Marvell TOPDOG wireless driver)
>
> The warning it fixes is: "large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type."
>
> The rx_ctrl member of the mwl8k_rx_desc struct is 8 bit (__u8 ), whereas trying
> to assign it a 32 bit value (which is returned from cpu_to_le32())
> causes the compiler to issue
> a truncation warning.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
Oh, duh...I should have looked for the obvious answer... :-)
Thanks,
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-21 13:22 [PATCH ] [RESEND] mwl8: fix build warning Rami Rosen
2009-04-21 13:57 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2009-04-21 20:32 ` John W. Linville
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