Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: Fix warnings about endianness

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Feb 15 2017 - 15:32:33 EST


On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:33:15AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I see the same warning was addressed very differently in 99277c1f9962
> ("Staging: rtl8192e: Fix Sparse warning of cast to restricted __le16 in
> rtllib_crypt_tkip.c"), which was for a close relative of that driver.
>
> Only one of the two approaches (at most) can be correct, so we
> regardless of your patch either rtl8192e or rtl8192u is broken on
> big-endian machines.

99277c1f9962 ("Staging: rtl8192e: Fix Sparse warning of cast to restricted __le16 in
rtllib_crypt_tkip.c") is obviously broken. Can you send a patch to
change it back?

regards,
dan carpenter