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SubjectRe: [PATCH net-next] marvell: mark mvneta and mvpp2 32-bit only
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 15:21:22 +0100

> Both of these drivers won't work on 64-bit architectures unless they
> are redesigned, since they store a virtual address pointer in a 32-bit
> field of the descriptors:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c: In function 'mvneta_bm_construct':
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvneta_bm.c:103:16: error: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Werror=pointer-to-int-cast]
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c: In function 'mvpp2_prs_vlan_init':
> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c:2563:32: error: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type [-Werror=overflow]
>
> This limits the COMPILE_TEST option for the two drivers again to
> only build them on 32-bit. This seems nicer than shutting up the
> warnings, in case we ever actually want to use them on 64-bit,
> as the warnings indicate which parts of the driver are currently
> broken there.
>
> Fixes: a0627f776a45 ("net: marvell: Allow drivers to be built with COMPILE_TEST")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Ok, this is a reasonable thing to do for now until the 64-bit patches
are sorted out.

Applied, thanks Arnd.

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