[PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-15 Thread Krzysztof Konopko
Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 but were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse: rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1546:25: warning: cast to restricted

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-15 Thread Jes Sorensen
Krzysztof Konopko k...@konagma.com writes: On 12/12/14 19:52, Jes Sorensen wrote: Larry Finger larry.fin...@lwfinger.net writes: On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: I was hunting particularly for inconsistencies with `sparse` and came across this one. But I dug a bit further and

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-15 Thread Jes Sorensen
Krzysztof Konopko k...@konagma.com writes: Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 but were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse: rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-15 Thread Jes Sorensen
Krzysztof Konopko k...@konagma.com writes: Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 but were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse: rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Krzysztof Konopko
On 12/12/14 00:53, Larry Finger wrote: On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse: rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Dan Carpenter
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse: rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 12:35 +0100, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: I'm _far_ from being a wireless expert but doesn't data coming out of the wire/air have the endianess defined explicitly? And both `AC_param` and `ADDBA_request` come out of air? In general, data in 802.11 frames is little endian.

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Larry Finger
On 12/12/2014 06:52 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse:

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Jes Sorensen
Larry Finger larry.fin...@lwfinger.net writes: On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: I was hunting particularly for inconsistencies with `sparse` and came across this one. But I dug a bit further and I wonder why the driver is not using standard stuff like the one in

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Krzysztof Konopko
On 12/12/14 17:43, Larry Finger wrote: On 12/12/2014 06:52 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 05:53:30PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as unsigned short. This was

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Krzysztof Konopko
On 12/12/14 18:12, Jes Sorensen wrote: Krzysztof Konopko k...@konagma.com writes: Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse: rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29:

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Krzysztof Konopko
On 12/12/14 18:35, Larry Finger wrote: On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: On 12/12/14 00:53, Larry Finger wrote: In particular, did you test on big-endian hardware after you made this change? Nope. I don't have any big-endian hardware. I don't even have the wireless card

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Krzysztof Konopko
On 12/12/14 19:52, Jes Sorensen wrote: Larry Finger larry.fin...@lwfinger.net writes: On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: I was hunting particularly for inconsistencies with `sparse` and came across this one. But I dug a bit further and I wonder why the driver is not using

[PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Krzysztof Konopko
Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 but were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse: rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1546:25: warning: cast to restricted

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Larry Finger
On 12/12/2014 04:50 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: On 12/12/14 18:35, Larry Finger wrote: On 12/12/2014 05:35 AM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: On 12/12/14 00:53, Larry Finger wrote: In particular, did you test on big-endian hardware after you made this change? Nope. I don't have any big-endian

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-12 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 23:58 +0100, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: This patch changes the types of the struct fields involved to be little-endian which is what is received over the air and consistent with relevant structs in include/linux/ieee80211.h. [] diff --git

[PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-11 Thread Krzysztof Konopko
Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse: rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1546:25: warning: cast to restricted

Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix sparse warnings

2014-12-11 Thread Larry Finger
On 12/11/2014 04:23 PM, Krzysztof Konopko wrote: Some struct fields in wifi.h are meant to be __le16 bu were declared as unsigned short. This was reported by sparse: rtw_wlan_util.c:538:24: warning: cast to restricted __le16 rtw_wlan_util.c:1544:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16