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Message-ID: <20251118172612.1f2fbf7f@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:26:12 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Dmitry Skorodumov <skorodumov.dmitry@...wei.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 andrey.bokhanko@...wei.com, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, "David S.
 Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 05/13] ipvlan: Fix compilation warning about
 __be32 -> u32

On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 04:47:03 -0800 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM Dmitry Skorodumov
> <skorodumov.dmitry@...wei.com> wrote:
> >
> > Fixed a compilation warning:
> >
> > ipvlan_core.c:56: warning: incorrect type in argument 1
> > (different base types) expected unsigned int [usertype] a
> > got restricted __be32 const [usertype] s_addr  
> 
> This is not a compilation warning, but a sparse related one ?
> 
> This patch does not belong to this series, this is a bit distracting.
> 
> Send a standalone patch targeting net tree, with an appropriate Fixes: tag
> 
> Fixes: 2ad7bf363841 ("ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.")

Not sure we should be sending Linus "fixes" for false positive sparse
warnings at rc7/final..