netdev - Re: [patch 2/2 v2 -next] cxgb4: clean up a type issue

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Date:	Wed, 08 Oct 2014 16:08:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:	hariprasad@...lsio.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2 v2 -next] cxgb4: clean up a type issue

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 16:44:34 +0300

> The tx_desc struct holds 8 __be64 values.  The original code in
> ring_tx_db() took a tx_desc pointer then casted it to an int pointer and
> then casted it to a u64 pointer.  It was confusing and triggered some
> static checker warnings.
> 
> I have changed the cxgb_pio_copy() function to only take tx_desc
> pointers.  This isn't really a loss of flexibility because anything else
> was buggy to begin with.
> 
> I also removed the casting on the destination pointer since that was
> unnecessary and a bit messy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied.
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