Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing

[Andrew Lunn]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 05:42:13PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

    Andrew