Hi John,
Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:
[auto build test WARNING on mac80211/master]
[also build test WARNING on ath6kl/ath-next v5.7-rc3 next-20200430]
[cannot apply to mac80211-next/master]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the
base tree in git format-patch, please see
https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982]
url:
https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/John-Crispin/nl80211-add-support...
base:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git master
reproduce:
# apt-get install sparse
# sparse version: v0.6.1-191-gc51a0382-dirty
make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig
make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__'
If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp(a)intel.com>
sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:4440:47: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in
return expression (different base types) @@ expected unsigned short @@ got
restricted __le16 conunsigned short @@
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:4440:47: sparse: expected unsigned short
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:4440:47: sparse: got restricted __le16 const [usertype]
tx_mcs_80p80
net/wireless/nl80211.c:4442:47: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in
return expression (different base types) @@ expected unsigned short @@ got
restricted __le16 conunsigned short @@
net/wireless/nl80211.c:4442:47: sparse: expected unsigned short
> net/wireless/nl80211.c:4442:47: sparse: got restricted __le16
const [usertype] tx_mcs_160
vim +4440 net/wireless/nl80211.c
4431
4432 static u16 he_get_txmcsmap(struct genl_info *info,
4433 const struct ieee80211_sta_he_cap *he_cap)
4434 {
4435 struct net_device *dev = info->user_ptr[1];
4436 struct wireless_dev *wdev = dev->ieee80211_ptr;
4437
4438 switch (wdev->chandef.width) {
4439 case NL80211_CHAN_WIDTH_80P80:
4440 return he_cap->he_mcs_nss_supp.tx_mcs_80p80;
4441 case NL80211_CHAN_WIDTH_160:
4442 return he_cap->he_mcs_nss_supp.tx_mcs_160;
4443 default:
4444 break;
4445 }
4446 return le16_to_cpu(he_cap->he_mcs_nss_supp.tx_mcs_80);
4447 }
4448
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