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ath: wil6210: Fix build error

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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>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <qca_vkondrat@qca.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Larry Finger 2013-07-20 21:46:48 -05:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 16ec75b5de
commit 5d21608a59
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/ath/wil6210/debugfs.c
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@ -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;