Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs.

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 02:44:20PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On 2.6.0-test5 jffs generates a warning about type mismatch because it casting a short
> > to a pointer.  Look like an obvious typo.
> 
> Which it is.  Thanks for spotting.  Linux, please apply.
>  
> > Builds clean, not tested on real hardware.
> > 
> > diff -Nru a/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c b/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c
> > --- a/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c	Tue Sep  9 14:41:53 2003
> > +++ b/fs/jffs/inode-v23.c	Tue Sep  9 14:41:53 2003
> > @@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@
> >  		   the device should be read from the flash memory and then
> >  		   added to the inode's i_rdev member.  */
> >  		u16 val;
> > -		jffs_read_data(f, (char *)val, 0, 2);
> > +		jffs_read_data(f, (char *)&val, 0, 2);
> >  		init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode,
> >  			old_decode_dev(val));
> >  	}

Is this endian-safe?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected]

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds