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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] device property: Get rid of union aliasing
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:54:28 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 01:23:56PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The commit
> 
>   318a19718261 ("device property: refactor built-in properties support")
> 
> went way too far and brought a union aliasing. Partially revert it here
> to get rid of union aliasing.

What is "union aliasing"?  And why is it bad?

> Note, Apple properties support is still utilizing this trick.

So you are breaking something now?

What exactly is this fixing?

greg k-h