linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: r8712u: remove unnecessary le32_to

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Message-ID: <CAO62RXeiX1nGLwowO0dYjMPczK13X2MwMbmPKyH=kt5BkwJTrw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:24:50 -0700
From:   Perry Hooker <perry.hooker@...il.com>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@...glemail.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8712u: remove unnecessary le32_to_cpu

Ouch. My apologies. I'll take more care next time. I've supplied an
updated patch that uses the __le32 type for *(pbuf + 1).

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> wrote:
> On 02/10/2017 08:58 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:52:12AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/10/2017 08:08 AM, Greg KH wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 08:51:55PM -0700, Perry Hooker wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This patch fixes the following sparse warning:
>>>>> drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops_linux.c:212:33: warning: cast to
>>>>> restricted __le32
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Perry Hooker <perry.hooker@...il.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops_linux.c | 2 +-
>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does not apply to my tree :(
>>>
>>>
>>> That is good. Yes the patch silenced the Sparse warning, but it would
>>> BREAK
>>> the driver on every big-endian machine. Variable pbuf is a pointer to a
>>> string of bytes *in little-endian order* that is to be converted into a
>>> cpu-ordered 32-bit quantity. The correct way to silence the warning is to
>>> make sure the compiler understands what *(pbuf + 1) really is.
>>>
>>> BTW, that driver has been tested on BE hardware. Please be careful about
>>> endian changes.
>>>
>>> NACK.
>>
>>
>> Care to comment this somehow so that I don't accidentally take a patch
>> for this in the future?
>
>
> My recollection is that a number of patches had been submitted to clean up
> the endian warnings, but I do not remember the details.
>
> I will try to reproduce those again, and get them resubmitted to clean up
> the warnings in a manner that does not break the driver. I do have a BE
> machine for testing.
>
> Larry
>
>