linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] staging: fieldbus: anybus-s: force endiannes annotation

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Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2019 04:22:38 +0200
From:   Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>
To:     Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@...il.com>
Cc:     Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] staging: fieldbus: anybus-s: force endiannes
 annotation

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 10:03:36AM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 2:11 AM Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org> wrote:
> >
> > V2: As requested by Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@...il.com> make the
> >     impact of the patch clear in the commit message.
> 
> Thank you, but did you miss my comment about creating a local variable
> instead? See:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/28/97

Did not miss it - I just don't think that makes it any more
understandable - the __force __be16 makes it clear I believe
that this is correct, sparse does not like this though - so tell
sparse. The local variable would need to be explained as it is
functionally not necessary - therefor I find it more confusing
that using  __force here.

If that rational is wrong let me know.

thx!
hofrat