Re: net: macb: sparse warning fixes

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 03:16:23PM +0200, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> On 22/06/2023 at 15:05, Ben Dooks wrote:
> > These are 3 hopefully easy patches for fixing sparse errors due to
> > endian-ness warnings. There are still some left, but there are not
> > as easy as they mix host and network fields together.
> > 
> > For example, gem_prog_cmp_regs() has two u32 variables that it does
> > bitfield manipulation on for the tcp ports and these are __be16 into
> > u32, so not sure how these are meant to be changed. I've also no hardware
> > to test on, so even if these did get changed then I can't check if it is
> > working pre/post change.
> 
> Do you know if there could be any impact on performance (even if limited)?

Hi Nicolas

This is inside a netdev_dbg(). So 99% of the time it is compiled
out. The other 1% of the time, your 115200 baud serial port is
probably the bottleneck, not an endianness swap.

	 Andrew