ath: wil6210: Fix build error
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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