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Message-ID: <20190204165902.GB24989@lunn.ch> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2019 17:59:02 +0100 From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Realtek linux nic maintainers <nic_swsd@...ltek.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 05:42:13PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote: > From: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com> > > Read MAC address 32-bit at a time and manually extract the individual > bytes. This avoids pointer aliasing and gives the compiler a better > chance of optimizing the operation. > > Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> > Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@...dia.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> Andrew
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