Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:44:09 +0400 | | From | Alexey Dobriyan <> | | Subject | Re: I need help with a sparse warning |
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On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:13:20PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > In file drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54common.c, the statement > > priv->rx_mtu = (size_t) le16_to_cpu((__le16)bootrec->data[10]); > > generates the sparse warning > > .../p54common.c:185:29: warning: cast to restricted __le16 > > where bootrec->data is u32, and priv->rx_mtu is u16. > > What should be done to eliminate this warning?
What is the intent?
MTU is 2-byte little-endian starting at 40-th byte?
Oh, and size_t cast is pointless.
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