Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/VPD: Use unaligned access helpers in pci_vpd_read

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On 12.05.2021 09:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:09:02AM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> len can have any value 1 .. 4. Also the proposal doesn't consider
>> the skip value.
> 
> So what about just keeping the code as-is then?  The existing version
> is much easier to read than the new one, has less branching and doesn't
> use an obscure API thast should not generally be used in driver code.
> 
Which version is easier to read may be a question of personal taste.
Using the unaligned access helper in pci_vpd_read() was asked for by
Bjorn to complement a use of get_unaligned_le32() in pci_vpd_write().
So I leave it up to him. Functionally it's the same anyway.



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