Re: [PATCH v2 18/24] mlxbf-tmfifo: sparse tags for config access

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Tue Aug 04 2020 - 10:56:58 EST


On Mon, 3 Aug 2020 17:00:01 -0400
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> mlxbf-tmfifo accesses config space using native types -
> which works for it since the legacy virtio native types.
>
> This will break if it ever needs to support modern virtio,
> so with new tags previously introduced for virtio net config,
> sparse now warns for this in drivers.
>
> Since this is a legacy only device, fix it up using
> virtio_legacy_is_little_endian for now.

I'm wondering if the driver should make this more explicit?

No issues with the patch, though.

>
> No functional changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/platform/mellanox/mlxbf-tmfifo.c | 13 ++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx>