netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ionic: Don't overwrite the cyclecounter bitmask

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Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:40:19 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@....com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org,
        drivers@...sando.io, shannon.nelson@....com, allen.hubbe@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ionic: Don't overwrite the cyclecounter bitmask

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 11:45:39 -0700 you wrote:
> The driver was incorrectly overwriting the cyclecounter bitmask,
> which was truncating it and not aligning to the hardware mask value.
> This isn't causing any issues, but it's wrong. Fix this by not
> constraining the cyclecounter/hardware mask.
> 
> Luckily, this seems to cause no issues, which is why this change
> doesn't have a fixes tag and isn't being sent to net. However, if
> any transformations from time->cycles are needed in the future,
> this change will be needed.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] ionic: Don't overwrite the cyclecounter bitmask
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/be690daa224e

You are awesome, thank you!
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