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Message-ID: <20251120094215.3e156548@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:42:15 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Dmitry Skorodumov <skorodumov.dmitry@...wei.com>
Cc: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Julian Vetter <julian@...er-limits.org>, Ido
 Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Guillaume
 Nault <gnault@...hat.com>, Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>, "David S.
 Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 <andrey.bokhanko@...wei.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] ipvlan: Fix sparse warning about __be32 ->
 u32

On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:26:32 +0300 Dmitry Skorodumov wrote:
> Fixed a sparse 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
> 
> Force cast the s_addr to u32
> 
> Fixes: 2ad7bf363841 ("ipvlan: Initial check-in of the IPVLAN driver.")
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Skorodumov <skorodumov.dmitry@...wei.com>

Read this please:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html

v1 was fine, why are you adding a Fixes tag in a non-functional change
:| I can't dig out v1 now because k.org aggressively supersedes the
patches. Send a v3 *while following the rules*.
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