netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] net: fix endian check warning in etherdevice.h

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Message-Id: <20150817.121605.400650271118838786.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:16:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] net: fix endian check warning in etherdevice.h

From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 18:34:03 -0700

> Sparse builds have been warning for a really long time now
> that etherdevice.h has a conversion that is unsafe.
> 
>   include/linux/etherdevice.h:79:32: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
> 
> This code change fixes the issue and generates the exact
> same assembly before/after (checked on x86_64)
> 
> Fixes: 2c722fe1c821 (etherdevice: Optimize a few is_<foo>_ether_addr functions)
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>

Applied, thanks Jesse.
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