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Date:   Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:51:16 +0530
From:   Aakash Hemadri <aakashhemadri123@...il.com>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Phillip Potter <phil@...lpotter.co.uk>,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] staging: r8188eu: cast to restricted __be32

On 21/08/20 04:44PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> This patch is wrong. All the documentation I could find tells me that the
> multi-byte entries in dhcph are big-endian, thus the new line should read:
> 
> 					u32 cookie = be32_to_cpu(dhcph->cookie);
> combined with:
> 
> @@ -649,7 +650,7 @@ struct dhcpMessage {
>         u_int8_t chaddr[16];
>         u_int8_t sname[64];
>         u_int8_t file[128];
> -       u_int32_t cookie;
> +       __be32 cookie;
>         u_int8_t options[308]; /* 312 - cookie */
>  };
> 
> The old code was, in fact, correct, but not in a way that satisfied Sparse.
> 
> Larry

Thanks for the review Larry. I understand now, will rework and send it
through

Thanks,
Aakash Hemadri