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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Kieron Browne <kieron.browne@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: rtl8723au: fix sparse incorrect type assignment warnings
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 11:26:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140917082627.GH17875@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410906489-26671-1-git-send-email-kieron.browne@gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:28:09PM +0100, Kieron Browne wrote:
> Use cpu_to_le16 to cast int for assignment to __le16 members
> 

"cast" is the wrong word.  It's really doing a byte swap.  It fixes a
bug on big endian systems.

But the patch is ok and matches how the other rtl drivers do it.

regards,
dan carpenter


      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-17  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16 22:28 [PATCH 1/1] staging: rtl8723au: fix sparse incorrect type assignment warnings Kieron Browne
2014-09-17  8:26 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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