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wireless.h and sparse warnings

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Subject: wireless.h and sparse warnings
From: margitsw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Margit Schubert-While)
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 16:01:33 +0200
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Problem getting rid of sparse warnings.
Using wireless_send_event for a custom event
(eg, in prism54 driver), we need to use the union
"iwreq_data" (from wireless.h), specifically the
"data.pointer" member initialized to a kmalloc'd
area. Therein lies the problem as "data.pointer"
has attribute "__user"; so a
"iwrqun.data.pointer = memptr;"
throws sparse warnings.

Anybody got any ideas ?

Margit



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