netdev - RE: [PATCH] e1000e: fix missing cpu_to_le64 on buffer

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Date:   Thu, 9 Jan 2020 00:50:16 +0000
From:   "Brown, Aaron F" <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>
To:     "Ben Dooks (Codethink)" <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
CC:     "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] e1000e: fix missing cpu_to_le64 on buffer_addr

> From: netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org <netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org>
> On Behalf Of Ben Dooks (Codethink)
> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1:53 AM
> To: ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk
> Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>; David S. Miller
> <davem@...emloft.net>; intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org;
> netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: [PATCH] e1000e: fix missing cpu_to_le64 on buffer_addr
> 
> The following warning suggests there is a missing cpu_to_le64() in
> the e1000_flush_tx_ring() function (it is also the behaviour
> elsewhere in the driver to do cpu_to_le64() on the buffer_addr
> when setting it)
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c:3813:30: warning: incorrect
> type in assignment (different base types)
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c:3813:30:    expected restricted
> __le64 [usertype] buffer_addr
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c:3813:30:    got unsigned long
> long [usertype] dma
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks (Codethink) <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>
> ---
> Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>