[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next v2 01/15] e1000e: make lost bits explicit

naamax.meir naamax.meir at linux.intel.com
Tue Dec 19 07:57:46 UTC 2023


On 12/6/2023 03:01, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> For more than 15 years this code has passed in a request for a page and
> masked off that page when read/writing. This code has been here forever,
> but FIELD_PREP finds the bug when converted to use it. Change the code
> to do exactly the same thing but allow the conversion to FIELD_PREP in a
> later patch. To make it clear what we lost when making this change I
> left a comment, but there is no point to change the code to generate a
> correct sequence at this point.
> 
> This is not a Fixes tagged patch on purpose because it doesn't change
> the binary output.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Marcin Szycik <marcin.szycik at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg at intel.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/80003es2lan.c | 13 +++++++------
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Naama Meir <naamax.meir at linux.intel.com>


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