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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers:staging:wlan-ng:hfa384x_usb: Fixing sparse warnings.
First off, why the "Re:" in the subject?

Second, your subject sucks :)

Try making it a bit more descriptive as to what you are doing, "fixing
sparse warnings" is very vague.

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 03:15:38PM +0200, Karim Eshapa wrote:
> Change the types of capture header, finally we need the header
> to be represented in the network byte order as __be..
> this is a piece of doc that he mentioned it in the code doc/capturefrm.txt
> You can check
> https://github.com/jdkoftinoff/mb-linux-msli/blob/master/
> uClinux-dist/user/wlan-ng/doc/capturefrm.txt
>
> 3. Byte Order

3? Where is 1. and 2.?

> All multibyte fields of the capture header are in "network" byte
> order. The "host to network" and "network to host" functions should
> work just fine. All the remaining multibyte fields are ordered
> according to their respective standards.
>
> 4. Capture Header Format
> The following fields make up the AVS capture header:
>
> Offset Name Type
> ------------------------------
> 0 version uint32
> 4 length uint32
> 8 mactime uint64
> 16 hosttime uint64
> 24 phytype uint32
> 28 channel uint32
> 32 datarate uint32
> 36 antenna uint32
> 40 priority uint32
> 44 ssi_type uint32
> 48 ssi_signal int32
> 52 ssi_noise int32
> 56 preamble uint32
> 60 encoding uint32
> ------------------------------
>
> and the warnings here fixed
>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3514:33: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3514:33: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] version
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3514:33: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3515:32: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3515:32: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] length
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3515:32: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3516:35: warning: restricted __be64 degrades to integer
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3517:34: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3517:34: expected unsigned long long [unsigned] [usertype] hosttime
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3517:34: got restricted __be64 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3518:33: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3518:33: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] phytype
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3518:33: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3519:33: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3519:33: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] channel
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3519:33: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3520:34: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3520:34: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] datarate
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3520:34: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3521:33: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3521:33: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] antenna
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3521:33: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3522:34: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3522:34: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] priority
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3522:34: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3523:34: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3523:34: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] ssi_type
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3523:34: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3524:36: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3524:36: expected signed int [signed] [usertype] [explicitly-signed] ssi_signal
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3524:36: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3525:35: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3525:35: expected signed int [signed] [usertype] [explicitly-signed] ssi_noise
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3525:35: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3526:34: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3526:34: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] preamble
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3526:34: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3527:34: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3527:34: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] encoding
> drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c:3527:34: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident>
>
> If this patch is fine, can I send the rest of fixes.

This line doesn't need to be in a changelog text, right? Please fix up
and resend.

thanks,

greg k-h

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