linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: Fix warnings about endianness

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Date:   Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:55:44 +0800
From:   maomao <albert008.xu@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@...il.com>,
        singhalsimran0@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192u: Fix warnings about endianness

On February 16, 2017 4:31:16 AM GMT+08:00, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:33:15AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> I see the same warning was addressed very differently in 99277c1f9962
>> ("Staging: rtl8192e: Fix Sparse warning of cast to restricted __le16
>in
>>  rtllib_crypt_tkip.c"), which was for a close relative of that
>driver.
>> 
>> Only one of the two approaches (at most) can be correct, so we
>> regardless of your patch either rtl8192e or rtl8192u is broken on
>> big-endian machines.
>
>99277c1f9962 ("Staging: rtl8192e: Fix Sparse warning of cast to
>restricted __le16 in
>rtllib_crypt_tkip.c") is obviously broken.  Can you send a patch to
>change it back?
>
>regards,
>dan carpenter
yes,I have done.But I have receive nothing about this patch from lkml for days

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