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From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] spi: Add Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC SPI controller
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:14:17 +0100
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        Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
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On 12/06/2018 10:12 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Mason,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:31 AM <masonccyang@mxic.com.tw> wrote:
>>>>> Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] spi: Add Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC SPI controller driver
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/03/2018 10:18 AM, Mason Yang wrote:
>>>>>> Add a driver for Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC SPI controller.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mason Yang <masonccyang@mxic.com.tw>
> 
>>>>>> +   xfercnt = xferpos;
>>>>>> +   rpc->xferlen = xfer[--xferpos].len;
>>>>>> +   rpc->cmd = RPC_SMCMR_CMD(((u8 *)xfer[0].tx_buf)[0]);
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the cast needed ?
>>>>
>>>> yes!
>>>
>>> Why ?
>>
>> Get a compiler warning due to tx_bug is void *, as Geert replied.
>>
>> Using get_unaligned(), patched code would be
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>  rpc->cmd = RPC_SMCMR_CMD(get_unaligned((u8 *)xfer[0].tx_buf));
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Using get_unaligned(0 is a bit strange for accessing a single byte quantity.
> Please keep the normal pointer dereference (including the cast).

Oh, right, for single bytes this is OK.

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut