netdev - Re: [PATCH V4 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken 64bit big-endian users of 'global

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Message-ID: <1443202945.2161.8.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:42:25 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org,
	QCA ath9k Development <ath9k-devel@....qualcomm.com>,
	Intel Linux Wireless <ilw@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 1/2] ACPI / EC: Fix broken 64bit big-endian users of
 'global_lock'

On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 09:41 -0700, Viresh Kumar wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> ---
> V3->V4:
> - Create a local variable instead of changing type of global_lock
>   (Rafael)

Err, surely that wasn't what Rafael meant, since it's clearly
impossible to use a pointer to the stack, assign to it once, and the
expect anything to wkr at all ...

johannes

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