Messages in this thread | | | From | Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 5/5] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Remove Rx frame size check | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:55:32 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@oracle.com] > Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 10:28 PM > To: Ioana Ciocoi Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@nxp.com> > Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; devel@driverdev.osuosl.org; linux- > kernel@vger.kernel.org; Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] staging: fsl-dpaa2/eth: Remove Rx frame size check > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 10:01:11AM -0500, Ioana Radulescu wrote: > > @@ -2385,6 +2365,12 @@ static int netdev_init(struct net_device > *net_dev) > > > > /* Set MTU upper limit; lower limit is 68B (default value) */ > > net_dev->max_mtu = DPAA2_ETH_MAX_MTU; > > + err = dpni_set_max_frame_length(priv->mc_io, 0, priv->mc_token, > > + (u16)DPAA2_ETH_MFL); > > The cast was there in the original code so this is not a comment on this > particular patch (which seems fine) but there is no need to cast. > > Generally it's best to avoid unnecessary casts. As a human reader, I > find the cast confusing. It indicates that DPAA2_ETH_MFL somehow > requires special handling. Perhaps it's negative or we are trying to > truncate away the high bits. But neither of those things really make > sense. > > From a static analysis perspective if DPAA2_ETH_MFL doesn't fit nicely > then we would want to generate a warning. But the cast explicitly > disables the check.
I really don't remember why the cast was there in the first place. It doesn't look like it's needed anymore, DPAA2_ETH_MFL has a positive value (around 10K) that fits just fine inside a u16.
I see Greg already applied the patch, so I'll send a separate one to remove the cast.
Thanks, Ioana
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