netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: thunderbolt: Fix sparse warnings

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Date:   Wed, 5 Apr 2023 15:28:54 +0300
From:   Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@...el.com>,
        Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: thunderbolt: Fix sparse warnings

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 01:42:08PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > How they are different? The complain is pretty much the same for all
> > these AFAICT:
> > 
> > expected restricted xxx [usertype] yyy
> > got restricted zzz [usertype]
> 
> While the main part is about header data type and endianess conversion between
> protocol and CPU (with cpu_*() and *_cpu() macros) this one is completely network
> related stuff as it's using hton*() and ntoh*() conversion macros. Yes, underneeth
> it may be the same, but semantically these two parts are not of the same thing.

Okay, fair enough :) I'll make this split in v2.