netdev - RE: [PATCH 1/7] staging: rtl8712: Fix some Sparse endian messages

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Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DB0284E4D@AcuExch.aculab.com>
Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:32:03 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Larry Finger' <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/7] staging: rtl8712: Fix some Sparse endian messages

From: Larry Finger
> Sent: 11 February 2017 03:30
> Sparse reports the following:
> 
>   CHECK   drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_xmit.c
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_xmit.c:564:42: warning: cast from restricted __le32
...

I think you ought to do separate patches for the changes that are only annotations
and those that actually change the code.

The latter need a proper patch description.

	David.