[PATCH] ath: wil6210: Fix build error

* [PATCH] ath: wil6210: Fix build error
@ 2013-07-21  2:46 Larry Finger
  2013-07-21  7:06 ` Vladimir Kondratiev
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Larry Finger @ 2013-07-21  2:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linville
  Cc: linux-wireless, Larry Finger, netdev, Vladimir Kondratiev,
	wil6210, Stable, Thomas Fjellstrom

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 <thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
Tested-by: Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>  [3.10]
Cc: Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c
index e8308ec..ab63676 100644
--- 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_file *s, const char *prefix,
 				   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(struct seq_file *s, void *data)
 		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 = le16_to_cpu(d->dma.length);
 			void *p = skb->data;
-- 
1.8.1.4

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