On 12/06/2018 10:12 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Mason, > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:31 AM <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] spi: Add Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC SPI controller driver >>>>> >>>>> On 12/03/2018 10:18 AM, Mason Yang wrote: >>>>>> Add a driver for Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC SPI controller. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Mason Yang <[email protected]> > >>>>>> + xfercnt = xferpos; >>>>>> + rpc->xferlen = xfer[--xferpos].len; >>>>>> + rpc->cmd = RPC_SMCMR_CMD(((u8 *)xfer[0].tx_buf)[0]); >>>>> >>>>> Is the cast needed ? >>>> >>>> yes! >>> >>> Why ? >> >> Get a compiler warning due to tx_bug is void *, as Geert replied. >> >> Using get_unaligned(), patched code would be >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> rpc->cmd = RPC_SMCMR_CMD(get_unaligned((u8 *)xfer[0].tx_buf)); >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Using get_unaligned(0 is a bit strange for accessing a single byte quantity. > Please keep the normal pointer dereference (including the cast).
Oh, right, for single bytes this is OK. -- Best regards, Marek Vasut
