linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: pmcraid: Replace cpu_to_be64 + le64_to

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Message-ID: <20251210222100.66ac5c88@pumpkin>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:21:00 +0000
From: David Laight <david.laight.linux@...il.com>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, "James E.J. Bottomley"
 <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>, "Martin K. Petersen"
 <martin.petersen@...cle.com>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: pmcraid: Replace cpu_to_be64 + le64_to_cpu with
 swab64

On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:39:36 +0100
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...ux.dev> wrote:

> On 10. Dec 2025, at 16:13, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 03:33:21PM +0100, Thorsten Blum wrote:  
> >> Replace cpu_to_be64(le64_to_cpu()) with swab64() to simplify
> >> pmcraid_prepare_cancel_cmd().  
> > 
> > How does this not break the __le64/__be64 annotation checking?  
> 
> I'm not sure and didn't investigate, but it compiles without warnings.
> 
> 

You'd need to run sparse.

	David