From: Moritz Fischer Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 17:18:34 +0000 (-0700) Subject: net: nixge: Address compiler warnings about signedness X-Git-Tag: v4.17-rc5~9^2~43 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a86b74d363708d0b04305f356fd3429c7b560a64;p=linux.git net: nixge: Address compiler warnings about signedness Fixes the following warnings: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘is_valid_ether_addr’ differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign] if (mac_addr && is_valid_ether_addr(mac_addr)) { ^~~~~~~~ expected ‘const u8 * {aka const unsigned char *}’ but argument is of type ‘const char *’ static inline bool is_valid_ether_addr(const u8 *addr) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of ‘ether_addr_copy’ differ in signedness [-Wpointer-sign] ether_addr_copy(ndev->dev_addr, mac_addr); ^~~~~~~~ expected ‘const u8 * {aka const unsigned char *}’ but argument is of type ‘const char *’ static inline void ether_addr_copy(u8 *dst, const u8 *src) Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c index c41fea9253e3..b092894dd128 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ni/nixge.c @@ -1183,7 +1183,7 @@ static int nixge_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) struct nixge_priv *priv; struct net_device *ndev; struct resource *dmares; - const char *mac_addr; + const u8 *mac_addr; int err; ndev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(*priv));