Re: [PATCH] staging: r8712u: remove unnecessary le32_to_cpu

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 08:52:12AM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 02/10/2017 08:08 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 08:51:55PM -0700, Perry Hooker wrote:
> > > This patch fixes the following sparse warning:
> > > drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops_linux.c:212:33: warning: cast to restricted __le32
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Perry Hooker <perry.hooker@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_ops_linux.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Does not apply to my tree :(
> 
> That is good. Yes the patch silenced the Sparse warning, but it would BREAK
> the driver on every big-endian machine. Variable pbuf is a pointer to a
> string of bytes *in little-endian order* that is to be converted into a
> cpu-ordered 32-bit quantity. The correct way to silence the warning is to
> make sure the compiler understands what *(pbuf + 1) really is.
> 
> BTW, that driver has been tested on BE hardware. Please be careful about
> endian changes.
> 
> NACK.

Care to comment this somehow so that I don't accidentally take a patch
for this in the future?

thanks,

greg k-h