Re: [PATCH 2/6] staging: vt6656: sparse fixes: device_get_stats

[Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 15:42 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:18:50PM +0000, Malcolm Priestley wrote:
> > sparse warning
> > main_usb.c:1442:44: warning: cast removes address space of expression
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c
> > index 4cb7aa7..59c2430 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c
> > @@ -1418,8 +1418,9 @@ static void device_set_multi(struct net_device *dev)
> >  static struct net_device_stats *device_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
> >  {
> >  	struct vnt_private *pDevice = netdev_priv(dev);
> > +	struct net_device_stats *stats = &pDevice->stats;
> >  
> > -	return &pDevice->stats;
> > +	return stats;
> 
> This change makes no sense to me.  Why is sparse complaining about this?
> 
> Is this a bug in sparse, or am I missing something obvious here?
Yes me!!!

Sorry. that is not line 1442, a case of number dyslexia.

That is fixed in the next patch.

Malcolm