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From: LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de (Lino Sanfilippo)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Patch Question
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:27:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d465a5d5-7112-c15d-9025-89bb595e99a8@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO62RXd4brUeFKhJP_fU7r_MiPzQ1BLx+3G4w5G2Qyr8rciwSA@mail.gmail.com>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-19 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-17 23:28 Patch Question Perry Hooker
2017-04-17 23:48 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2017-04-17 23:58 ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-04-18 23:07   ` Perry Hooker
2017-04-19  0:11     ` Tobin C. Harding
2017-04-19 15:54       ` Perry Hooker
2017-04-19 16:13         ` Greg KH
2017-04-19 16:46           ` Perry Hooker
2017-04-19 20:48             ` Lino Sanfilippo
2017-04-19 13:27 ` Lino Sanfilippo [this message]
2017-04-19 15:41   ` Perry Hooker
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-22  3:01 Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
2005-09-22  4:32 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-22  6:33   ` Jesper Juhl

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