From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] device property: Get rid of union aliasing
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:54:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180426125428.GA8975@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180426102356.77394-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 01:23:56PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The commit
>
> 318a19718261 ("device property: refactor built-in properties support")
>
> went way too far and brought a union aliasing. Partially revert it here
> to get rid of union aliasing.
What is "union aliasing"? And why is it bad?
> Note, Apple properties support is still utilizing this trick.
So you are breaking something now?
What exactly is this fixing?
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-26 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-26 10:23 [PATCH v1] device property: Get rid of union aliasing Andy Shevchenko
2018-04-26 12:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-04-26 13:05 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-04-27 10:56 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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