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Message-ID: <wrfja8yqbzqr.fsf@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 02 Apr 2015 06:17:48 -0400
From:	Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@...hat.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Piotr Witoslawski <pwitos@...il.com>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	Yannis Damigos <giannis.damigos@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: rtl8723au: fix "warning: cast to restricted __le16"

Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> writes:
> This doesn't look right and it doesn't have a changelog explainly the
> weirdness.
>

... and the fix is as ugly as it gets!

If something like this is needed, creating a __le16 *ptr at the
beginnging of the function would be a lot better.

Jes
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