Re: [PATCH v1] device property: Get rid of union aliasing

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Apr 27 2018 - 06:56:16 EST


On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Note, Apple properties support is still utilizing this trick.

Can you please resend this with a slightly more detailed description
of what's going on in the changelog?

Someone reading git logs in the future would have a really hard time
with decoding the above, and the last sentence in particular. :-)