netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] net: stmmac: compare p->des0 and p->des1 with _

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2023 15:27:15 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Min-Hua Chen <minhuadotchen@...il.com>
Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>, Alexandre Torgue
 <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>, Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>, "David
 S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
 Simon Horman <simon.horman@...igine.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: stmmac: compare p->des0 and p->des1 with __le32
 type values

On Fri, 19 May 2023 19:50:28 +0800 Min-Hua Chen wrote:
> -		if ((p->des0 == 0xffffffff) && (p->des1 == 0xffffffff))
> +		if (p->des0 == cpu_to_le32(0xffffffff) &&
> +		    p->des1 == cpu_to_le32(0xffffffff))

Can you try to fix the sparse tool instead? I believe it already
ignores such errors for the constant of 0, maybe it can be taught 
to ignore all "isomorphic" values?

By "isomorphic" I mean that 0xffffffff == cpu_to_le32(0xffffffff)
so there's no point complaining.
-- 
pw-bot: reject