Re: net: macb: sparse warning fixes

[Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>]

Hi Ben,

On 22/06/2023 at 15:05, Ben Dooks wrote:
> These are 3 hopefully easy patches for fixing sparse errors due to
> endian-ness warnings. There are still some left, but there are not
> as easy as they mix host and network fields together.
> 
> For example, gem_prog_cmp_regs() has two u32 variables that it does
> bitfield manipulation on for the tcp ports and these are __be16 into
> u32, so not sure how these are meant to be changed. I've also no hardware
> to test on, so even if these did get changed then I can't check if it is
> working pre/post change.

Do you know if there could be any impact on performance (even if limited)?

Best regards,
   Nicolas

> Also gem_writel and gem_writel_n, it is not clear if both of these are
> meant to be host order or not.
> 
> Ben Dooks (3):
>    net: macb: check constant to define and fix __be32 warnings
>    net: macb: add port constant to fix __be16 warnings
>    net: macb: fix __be32 warnings in debug code
> 
>   drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c | 25 +++++++++++++-----------
>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

-- 
Nicolas Ferre