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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:57:16 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Rami Rosen <roszenrami@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH ] [RESEND] mwl8: fix build warning.
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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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