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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Carlos Palminha <CARLOS.PALMINHA@synopsys.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: rtl8712: fix sparse warnings
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 09:09:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170208060859.GG11154@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1abdb4fa-9161-2891-ded6-83763d678c2e@synopsys.com>

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 01:19:39AM +0000, Carlos Palminha wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08-02-2017 00:58, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 12:47:22AM +0000, Carlos Palminha wrote:
> >>Fixed the following sparse warnings:
> >>* cast from restricted __le32
> >>* invalid assignment from int to __le32
> >>
> >
> >The changelog doesn't give me any confidence that you understand the
> >implications of this patch.  You silenced the warning but I think you
> >may be introducing bugs (I haven't done a thourough review).
> >
> >regards,
> >dan carpenter
> >
> true... i was short on words.
> will resend v2 with better description.

I'm pretty sure the original code is correct and just the sparse
annotations are wrong.

regards,
dan carpenter

      reply	other threads:[~2017-02-08  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-08  0:47 [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: rtl8712: fix sparse warnings Carlos Palminha
2017-02-08  0:58 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-02-08  1:19   ` Carlos Palminha
2017-02-08  6:09     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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