Re: [PATCH] IB/hfi1: Add explicit cast OPA_MTU_8192 to 'enum ib_mtu'

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Tue Jun 30 2020 - 17:05:58 EST


On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 02:22:08PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> On 6/22/2020 8:52 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > Clang warns:
> >
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/qp.c:198:9: warning: implicit conversion from
> > enumeration type 'enum opa_mtu' to different enumeration type 'enum
> > ib_mtu' [-Wenum-conversion]
> > mtu = OPA_MTU_8192;
> > ~ ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 1 warning generated.
> >
> > enum opa_mtu extends enum ib_mtu. There are typically two ways to deal
> > with this:
> >
> > * Remove the expected types and just use 'int' for all parameters and
> > types.
> >
> > * Explicitly cast the enums between each other.
> >
> > This driver chooses to do the later so do the same thing here.
> >
> > Fixes: 6d72344cf6c4 ("IB/ipoib: Increase ipoib Datagram mode MTU's upper limit")
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1062
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200527040350.GA3118979@ubuntu-s3-xlarge-x86/
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Acked-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks! Who should pick up this patch? This warning is in mainline now,
it would be nice if this could go via an -rc branch but if it is too
late for that, I understand.

Cheers,
Nathan