netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-next v1 01/13] e1000e: make lost bits explicit

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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 10:59:21 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Marcin Szycik <marcin.szycik@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next v1 01/13] e1000e: make lost bits explicit

On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 01:19:09PM -0800, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> For more than 15 years this code has passed in a request for a page and
> masked off that page when read/writing. This code has been here forever,
> but FIELD_PREP finds the bug when converted to use it. Change the code
> to do exactly the same thing but allow the conversion to FIELD_PREP in a
> later patch. To make it clear what we lost when making this change I
> left a comment, but there is no point to change the code to generate a
> correct sequence at this point.

:)

> This is not a Fixes tagged patch on purpose because it doesn't change
> the binary output.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Marcin Szycik <marcin.szycik@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>