Re: [PATCH] aoe: fix abuse of arrays and sparse warnings

[Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>]

On Thursday 24 February 2005 19:23, Ed L Cashin wrote:

> Have you tested it?

Not yet.

> If you don't have any 
> ATA over Ethernet hardware, you can using the alpha vblade program for
> testing.

OK. Will try.

> I was trying to determine what sparse warnings you see, so I got
> sparse from bk://sparse.bkbits.net/sparse and ran it.  Your patch cuts
> down significantly on the complaints, but there are some that persist.
> Maybe you're using an older version of sparse?

No. Those three were deliberately left as is because they aren't local to
AOE.

> drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c:236:24: warning: symbol 'aoe_fops' was not declared. Should it be static?

> drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:27:17: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:27:17:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] protocol
> drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:27:17:    got restricted unsigned short [usertype] [force] <noident>

> drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:156:10: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different base types)
> drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:156:10:    expected unsigned short [unsigned] type
> drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c:156:10:    got restricted unsigned short [usertype] [force] <noident>

> The "array abuse" is something that I'm not all that enthusiastic
> about changing,

I am.

> since it's mostly a style issue,

It isn't. 

	struct aoe_hdr {
		unsigned char tag[4];
	};
	struct aoe_hdr *h;
	u32 net_tag;

	net_tag = __cpu_to_be32(n);
	memcpy(h->tag, &net_tag, sizeof net_tag);

This code is plain ugly. When AOE was merged there were _plenty_ of examples
of LE and BE fields in structs. 

> and last time I 
> changed it the way your patch does, the original author of the patch
> changed it back.

Please, show him include/linux/ext2_fs.h::struct ext2_group_desc{} and
fs/ext2/super.c::ext2_check_descriptors(), for example.

> But you've figured out how to make sparse happy, and 
> for that I'm grateful!  :)

:)

	Alexey