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Message-ID: <50B92A6D.8000600@myri.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:51:41 -0500
From:	Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@...i.com>
To:	kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next:master 98/98] drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:1286:34:
 sparse: cast to restricted __be16

On 11/30/12 16:02, kbuild test robot wrote:
> tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git master
> head:   1b4c44e6369dbbafd113f1e00b406f1eda5ab5b2
> commit: 1b4c44e6369dbbafd113f1e00b406f1eda5ab5b2 [98/98] myri10ge: Add vlan rx for better GRO perf.
> 
> 
> sparse warnings:
> 
> + drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:1286:34: sparse: cast to restricted __be16
> + drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:1286:34: sparse: cast to restricted __be16
> + drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:1286:34: sparse: cast to restricted __be16
> + drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:1286:34: sparse: cast to restricted __be16
> + drivers/net/ethernet/myricom/myri10ge/myri10ge.c:1286:16: sparse: restricted __be16 degrades to integer


OK, maybe a dumb question again, but how do I get sparse to produce
the 'cast to restricted' warnings?  I ran sparse before submission,
but it only showed the pre-existing, non "cast to restricted"
warnings, so I did not know I was introducing a new warning.
Do I need to use a different architecture? (I was using x86_64).

Also, the line it is warning about is this:

> 1b4c44e6 Andrew Gallatin 2012-11-30 @1286  	    veh->h_vlan_proto == ntohs(ETH_P_8021Q)) {


Which seems to be nearly identical to the usage in
if_vlan.h:__vlan_get_tag, which I was treating as canonical..
So I'm a bit confused as to how to fix it.


Thanks,

Drew


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