netdev - Re: [PATCH V2] rds: ib: force endiannes annotation

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Date:   Wed, 01 May 2019 17:15:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hofrat@...dl.org
Cc:     santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] rds: ib: force endiannes annotation

From: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 05:12:57 +0200

> While the endiannes is being handled correctly as indicated by the comment
> above the offending line - sparse was unhappy with the missing annotation
> as be64_to_cpu() expects a __be64 argument. To mitigate this annotation
> all involved variables are changed to a consistent __le64 and the
>  conversion to uint64_t delayed to the call to rds_cong_map_updated().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>

Applied.