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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: maomao xu <albert008.xu@gmail.com>
Cc: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, noralf@tronnes.org,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]staging: fbtft: Fix sparse warnings about endianness
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:18:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170214171825.GA1625@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1487062390-26050-1-git-send-email-albert008.xu@gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 04:53:10PM +0800, maomao xu wrote:
>     Fixed sparse warnings about endianness. E.g.:
> 
>     warning: incorrect type in assignment (different base types)

Why are these lines indented?

> Signed-off-by: maomao xu <albert008.xu@gmail.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-io.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-io.c
> index d868405..ffb9a3b 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-io.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-io.c
> @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ int fbtft_write_spi_emulate_9(struct fbtft_par *par, void *buf, size_t len)
>  			src++;
>  		}
>  		tmp |= ((*src & 0x0100) ? 1 : 0);
> -		*(u64 *)dst = cpu_to_be64(tmp);
> +		*(__be64 *)dst = cpu_to_be64(tmp);

Really?  That seems very odd.  I need a maintainer's ack for this before
I can take it...

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-14 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14  8:53 [PATCH]staging: fbtft: Fix sparse warnings about endianness maomao xu
2017-02-14 17:18 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-02-14 18:57   ` Al Viro

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