On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 8:36 PM Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 5:26 PM Eugene Shalygin > <eugene.shalygin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... > > bin2hex() can't output UTF-16LE characters, can it? It would need an > > intermediate buffer and a call to convert ASCII (UTF-8) to UTF-16. > > I didn't get it. If there is a strong endianess expected the parameter > should be __le16 or __be16, moreover it seems it missed the const > qualifier. Any preparatory stuff should be done in the > asus_wmi_ec_make_block_read_query() which prepares the input buffer, > doesn't it? I'm expecting a confusion here, so let me clarify: 1) in the current code the __le16/__be16 is missed, BUT 2) if you are going to prepare CPU endian buffer in the caller, the u16 is correct, only const should be added. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko