On Friday 14 September 2007 23:22:00 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Friday 14 September 2007 21:05:40 Larry Finger wrote:
> >> Are you using DMA or PIO? I did find some PIO endian problems,
> > 
> > Where exactly?
> 
> drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/pio.c:612:29: warning: incorrect type in 
> assignment (different base
> types)
> drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/pio.c:612:29:    expected unsigned short 
> [unsigned] [short]
> [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/pio.c:612:29:    got restricted unsigned short 
> [usertype] <noident>
> 
> These patches clear up the warnings.
> 
> Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/pio.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/pio.c
> +++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/pio.c
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static u16 tx_get_next_word(const u8 *tx
>                 source = packet;
>                 i -= txhdr_size;
>         }
> -       ret = le16_to_cpu(*((u16 *)(source + i)));
> +       ret = le16_to_cpu(*((__le16 *)(source + i)));
>         *pos += 2;
> 
>         return ret;
> @@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ static void pio_rx_error(struct b43legac
> 
>  void b43legacy_pio_rx(struct b43legacy_pioqueue *queue)
>  {
> -       u16 preamble[21] = { 0 };
> +       __le16 preamble[21] = { 0 };
>         struct b43legacy_rxhdr_fw3 *rxhdr;
>         u16 tmp;
>         u16 len;
> @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ data_ready:
>         skb_put(skb, len);
>         for (i = 0; i < len - 1; i += 2) {
>                 tmp = b43legacy_pio_read(queue, B43legacy_PIO_RXDATA);
> -               *((u16 *)(skb->data + i)) = cpu_to_le16(tmp);
> +               *((__le16 *)(skb->data + i)) = cpu_to_le16(tmp);
>         }
>         if (len % 2) {
>                 tmp = b43legacy_pio_read(queue, B43legacy_PIO_RXDATA);
> 
> 

That are no endianess issues. These are false sparse positives, because
the wrong types were used. The generated code is the same.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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