linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: amd756: Fix endianness handling for word data

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Message-ID: <Z3kOW11SxEVwqcw-@ninjato>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:32:59 +0100
From: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>
To: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...nel.org>
Cc: Atharva Tiwari <evepolonium@...il.com>,
	kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: amd756: Fix endianness handling for word data


> Yeah! That was my first thought, but because this was reported
> by LKP (which I respect more than other code analyzers) as a
> potential issue, I was on the 50-50.

A potential issue on outdated hardware (or better: non-existing versions
of outdated harware) which has not showed up since the git era is not
really a for-current bugfix in my book. That being said, it does not
harm in for-current.


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