On 10/18/2013 05:08 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 16:34 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
Sparse checking results in the following warnings:
CHECK drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:3932:17: warning: cast removes
address space of expression
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c:3933:31: warning: incorrect type
in argument 1 (different address spaces)
[...]
- DBG_88E("[%s] extra = %s\n", __func__, (char
*)wrqu->data.pointer);
- if (!memcmp(wrqu->data.pointer, "status", 6)) {
+ DBG_88E("[%s] extra = %s\n", __func__, (__force char
*)wrqu->data.pointer);
+ if (!memcmp((__force const char *)wrqu->data.pointer, "status", 6)) {
[...]
This is hiding the problem, not fixing it.
This private interface needs to be removed anyway.
I agree, but that is not likely to happen soon. I will just leave this set of
Sparse warnings alone.
Larry
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