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From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Vadim Fedorenko <vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev>,
	Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@intel.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	Prathosh Satish <Prathosh.Satish@microchip.com>,
	Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 5/8] mfd: zl3073x: Add functions to work with register mailboxes
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:53:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea9cd028-3d74-4d46-b355-a74ad549269b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8082254c-01a6-4aca-84de-76083fdcbb3b@lunn.ch>



On 24. 04. 25 9:18 odp., Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> During taking 613cbb91e9ce ("media: Add MIPI CCI register access helper
>> functions") approach I found they are using for these functions u64
>> regardless of register size... Just to accommodate the biggest
>> possible value. I know about weakness of 'void *' usage but u64 is not
>> also ideal as the caller is forced to pass always 8 bytes for reading
>> and forced to reserve 8 bytes for each read value on stack.
> 
> In this device, how are the u48s used? Are they actually u48s, or are
> they just u8[6], for example a MAC address? The network stack has lots
> of functions like:
> 
> eth_hw_addr_set(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr)

u48 registers always represent 48bit integer... they read from device 
using bulk read as big-endian 48bit int. The same is valid also for u16
and u32.

Ivan


  reply	other threads:[~2025-04-24 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-24 15:47 [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] Add Microchip ZL3073x support (part 1) Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 15:47 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/8] dt-bindings: dpll: Add DPLL device and pin Ivan Vecera
2025-04-25  7:39   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-04-25  9:36     ` Ivan Vecera
2025-04-25  9:40       ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-04-24 15:47 ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/8] dt-bindings: dpll: Add support for Microchip Azurite chip family Ivan Vecera
2025-04-25  7:41   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2025-04-25  9:38     ` Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 15:47 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/8] mfd: Add Microchip ZL3073x support Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 16:34   ` Andrew Lunn
2025-04-24 16:49     ` Ivan Vecera
2025-04-25  3:36   ` kernel test robot
2025-04-24 15:47 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/8] mfd: zl3073x: Add support for devlink device info Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 15:47 ` [PATCH net-next v4 5/8] mfd: zl3073x: Add functions to work with register mailboxes Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 16:43   ` Andrew Lunn
2025-04-24 17:10     ` Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 19:10       ` Andrew Lunn
2025-04-24 19:26         ` Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 19:29           ` Andrew Lunn
2025-04-24 19:58             ` Ivan Vecera
2025-04-25  6:55               ` Lee Jones
2025-04-25 10:13                 ` Ivan Vecera
2025-04-25 10:17                   ` Lee Jones
2025-04-25 10:29                     ` Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 19:18       ` Andrew Lunn
2025-04-24 19:53         ` Ivan Vecera [this message]
2025-04-24 19:57           ` Andrew Lunn
2025-04-25 13:04             ` Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 15:47 ` [PATCH net-next v4 6/8] mfd: zl3073x: Fetch invariants during probe Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 15:47 ` [PATCH net-next v4 7/8] mfd: zl3073x: Add clock_id field Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 15:47 ` [PATCH net-next v4 8/8] mfd: zl3073x: Register DPLL sub-device during init Ivan Vecera
2025-04-24 15:51 ` [PATCH net-next v4 0/8] Add Microchip ZL3073x support (part 1) Lee Jones
2025-04-24 16:29   ` Ivan Vecera

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