Patch Question

Lino Sanfilippo LinoSanfilippo at gmx.de
Wed Apr 19 09:27:59 EDT 2017


Hi,

On 18.04.2017 01:28, Perry Hooker wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I recently submitted a patch to the kernel mailing list:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/21/712
> 
> I received some feedback on the patch. After a bit of polite
> back-and-forth, the respondent stopped replying when I asked for more
> information, and I haven't heard anything from the maintainers.
> 
> Based on my analysis (contained in the thread), I still think the
> patch is correct & appropriate.

As far as I understood Dan Carpenters (last) post in that thread, the content in the buffer
is already in little endian order. In this case the code is correct as it is and there is no need 
for the change you propose.


Regards,
Lino




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