I recently submitted a patch (attached below) that corrects a couple of 'sparse' warnings in drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c. I got this reply back from greg k-h:

This patch does not apply to my tree at all :( Please rebase it against linux-next and try again.

However, I thought I *was* working off linux-next. This is what I did: $ git remote add linux-next https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git $ git fetch linux-next $ git fetch --tags linux-next $ git remote update $ git checkout next-20170310 $ git apply 0001-staging-rtl8192u-use-__le16_to_cpu-instead-of-cast.patch ... and the patch applied ok. Just to be sure, I also did this: $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git $ git apply 0001-staging-rtl8192u-use-__le16_to_cpu-instead-of-cast.patch ... and the patch again applied OK. What am I doing wrong / where should I go for more info? Thanks, Perry --- drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c index 9209aad..33d105d 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c @@ -2304,9 +2304,9 @@ static void dm_check_edca_turbo( /* For Each time updating EDCA parameter, reset EDCA turbo mode status. */ dm_init_edca_turbo(dev); u1bAIFS = qos_parameters->aifs[0] * ((mode&(IEEE_G|IEEE_N_24G)) ? 9 : 20) + aSifsTime; - u4bAcParam = (((u32)(qos_parameters->tx_op_limit[0])) << AC_PARAM_TXOP_LIMIT_OFFSET)| - (((u32)(qos_parameters->cw_max[0])) << AC_PARAM_ECW_MAX_OFFSET)| - (((u32)(qos_parameters->cw_min[0])) << AC_PARAM_ECW_MIN_OFFSET)| + u4bAcParam = (((u32)__le16_to_cpu(qos_parameters->tx_op_limit[0])) << AC_PARAM_TXOP_LIMIT_OFFSET) | + (((u32)__le16_to_cpu(qos_parameters->cw_max[0])) << AC_PARAM_ECW_MAX_OFFSET) | + (((u32)__le16_to_cpu(qos_parameters->cw_min[0])) << AC_PARAM_ECW_MIN_OFFSET) | ((u32)u1bAIFS << AC_PARAM_AIFS_OFFSET); /*write_nic_dword(dev, WDCAPARA_ADD[i], u4bAcParam);*/ write_nic_dword(dev, EDCAPARA_BE, u4bAcParam);