Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967764Ab3HICOu (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Aug 2013 22:14:50 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:55720 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967503Ab3HIB66 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:58:58 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Fjellstrom , Larry Finger , Vladimir Kondratiev , "John W. Linville" Subject: [ 044/102] ath: wil6210: Fix build error Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 18:57:20 -0700 Message-Id: <20130809015020.242015405@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.rc0.20.gb99dd2e In-Reply-To: <20130809015010.208118575@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130809015010.208118575@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-5.1.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3756 Lines: 86 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Larry Finger commit 5d21608a592a9afcac8d82c6478a564e911ce70b upstream. Building driver wil6210 in 3.10 and 3.11 kernels yields the following errors: CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function 'wil_print_ring': drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:163:11: error: pointer targets in passing argument 5 of 'hex_dump_to_buffer' differ in signedness [-Werror=pointer-sign] false); ^ In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0, from include/linux/cache.h:4, from include/linux/time.h:4, from include/linux/stat.h:18, from include/linux/module.h:10, from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17: include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected 'char *' but argument is of type 'unsigned char *' extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len, ^ drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c: In function 'wil_txdesc_debugfs_show': drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:429:10: error: pointer targets in passing argument 5 of 'hex_dump_to_buffer' differ in signedness [-Werror=pointer-sign] sizeof(printbuf), false); ^ In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13:0, from include/linux/cache.h:4, from include/linux/time.h:4, from include/linux/stat.h:18, from include/linux/module.h:10, from drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c:17: include/linux/printk.h:361:13: note: expected 'char *' but argument is of type 'unsigned char *' extern void hex_dump_to_buffer(const void *buf, size_t len, ^ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make[5]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210] Error 2 make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/ath] Error 2 make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2 make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2 make: *** [drivers] Error 2 These errors are fixed by changing the type of the buffer from "unsigned char *" to "char *". Reported-by: Thomas Fjellstrom Tested-by: Thomas Fjellstrom Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Cc: Thomas Fjellstrom Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static void wil_print_ring(struct seq_fi le16_to_cpu(hdr.type), hdr.flags); if (len <= MAX_MBOXITEM_SIZE) { int n = 0; - unsigned char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2]; + char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2]; unsigned char databuf[MAX_MBOXITEM_SIZE]; void __iomem *src = wmi_buffer(wil, d.addr) + sizeof(struct wil6210_mbox_hdr); @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static int wil_txdesc_debugfs_show(struc seq_printf(s, " SKB = %p\n", skb); if (skb) { - unsigned char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2]; + char printbuf[16 * 3 + 2]; int i = 0; int len = skb_headlen(skb); void *p = skb->data; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/