From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Moritz Fischer Subject: [PATCH 2/2] net: nixge: Address compiler warnings about signedness Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 10:18:34 -0700 Message-ID: <20180504171834.9365-2-mdf@kernel.org> References: <20180504171834.9365-1-mdf@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, alex.williams@ni.com, Moritz Fischer To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180504171834.9365-1-mdf@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Fixes the following warnings: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘is_valid_ether_addr’ differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign] if (mac_addr && is_valid_ether_addr(mac_addr)) { ^~~~~~~~ expected ‘const u8 * {aka const unsigned char *}’ but argument is of type ‘const char *’ static inline bool is_valid_ether_addr(const u8 *addr) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of ‘ether_addr_copy’ differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign] ether_addr_copy(ndev->dev_addr, mac_addr); ^~~~~~~~ expected ‘const u8 * {aka const unsigned char *}’ but argument is of type ‘const char *’ static inline void ether_addr_copy(u8 *dst, const u8 *src) Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer --- drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c index c41fea9253e3..b092894dd128 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c @@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ static int nixge_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct nixge_priv *priv; struct net_device *ndev; struct resource *dmares; - const char *mac_addr; + const u8 *mac_addr; int err; ndev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*priv)); -- 2.17.0