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Message-ID: <20250528145747.GA1484967@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 15:57:47 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
Cc: andrew+netdev@...n.ch, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, saikrishnag@...vell.com,
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	lcherian@...vell.com, bbhushan2@...vell.com, jerinj@...vell.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net PATCH] octeontx2: Annotate mmio regions as __iomem

On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 10:45:27AM +0530, Subbaraya Sundeep wrote:
> This patch removes unnecessary typecasts by marking the
> mbox_regions array as __iomem since it is used to store
> pointers to memory-mapped I/O (MMIO) regions. Also simplified
> the call to readq() in PF driver by removing redundant type casts.
> 
> Fixes: 98c561116360 ("octeontx2-af: cn10k: Add mbox support for CN10K platform")
> Signed-off-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>

Thanks Subbaraya,

As per my comment on [1], I wonder if this is more of a clean-up
for net-next (once it re-opens, no Fixes tag) than a fix.

[1] Re: [net v2 PATCH] octeontx2-pf: Avoid typecasts by simplifying otx2_atomic64_add macro 
    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20250528125501.GC365796@horms.kernel.org/T/#t

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