Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: clean up endianness issues

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 09:22:36PM +0530, Aakash Hemadri wrote:
> Fix these sparse warnings:
> 
> > rtw_br_ext.c:73:23: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
> 
> Here tag->tag_len is be16, use ntohs()
> 
> > rtw_br_ext.c:601:57: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> > rtw_br_ext.c:601:57:    expected unsigned short
> > rtw_br_ext.c:601:57:    got restricted __be16 [usertype]
> 
> > rtw_br_ext.c:664:45: warning: cast to restricted __be16
> > rtw_br_ext.c:771:84: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different base types)
> > rtw_br_ext.c:771:84:    expected unsigned int [usertype] len
> 
> Cast MAGIC_CODE as unsigned short
> 
> > rtw_br_ext.c:771:84:    got restricted __be16 [usertype] payload_len
> > rtw_br_ext.c:773:110: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
> > rtw_br_ext.c:773:110:    expected int len
> > rtw_br_ext.c:773:110:    got restricted __be16 [usertype] payload_len
> 
> > rtw_br_ext.c:836:54: warning: cast to restricted __be32
> 
> Unnecessary double cast?
> 
> > rtw_br_ext.c:839:70: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
> > rtw_br_ext.c:845:70: warning: invalid assignment: |=
> > rtw_br_ext.c:845:70:    left side has type unsigned short
> > rtw_br_ext.c:845:70:    right side has type restricted __be16
> 
> dhcp->flag is u16

That is a lot of different things all at once.  Please break this up
into one-logical-change at a time and send a patch series.

thanks,

greg k-h