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Message-ID: <aDgHmiE1bdvc4IgI@e6bae70a73d4>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 07:07:06 +0000
From: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
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

Hi Simon,

On 2025-05-28 at 14:57:47, Simon Horman (horms@...nel.org) wrote:
> 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
>
Sure.

Thanks,
Sundeep

> ...