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Date:   Sun, 5 Jul 2020 13:46:37 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>,
        Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 6/7] net: phy: cavium: Improve __iomem mess



On 7/5/2020 11:29 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> The MIPS low level register access functions seem to be missing
> __iomem annotation. This cases lots of sparse warnings, when code

s/cases/causes/g

> casts off the __iomem. Make the Cavium MDIO drivers cleaner by pushing
> the casts lower down into the helpers, allow the drivers to work as
> normal, with __iomem.
> 
> bus->register_base is now an void *, rather than a u64. So forming the
> mii_bus->id string cannot use %llx any more. Use %px, so this kernel
> address is still exposed to user space, as it was before.
> 
> Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>
> Cc: Robert Richter <rrichter@...vell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian