RE: [PATCH net v2 1/2] net: ll_temac: Fix DMA resources leak

[Katakam, Harini]

Hi Jakub, Jonas,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 12:19 AM
> To: Jonas Suhr Christensen <jsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Katakam, Harini
> <harini.katakam@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; David S.
> Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>;
> Michal Simek <michal.simek@xxxxxxxxxx>; Haoyue Xu
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> Wang Qing <wangqing@xxxxxxxx>; Yang Yingliang
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 1/2] net: ll_temac: Fix DMA resources leak
> 
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:37:00 +0100 Jonas Suhr Christensen wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 7, 2023, at 19:42, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:36:11 +0100 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > >> You can either try change to phys type to __be32 (likely not
> > >> suitable for -net and possibly can introduce even more warnings
> > >> elsewhere)
> > >
> > > FWIW that seems like the best option to me as well. Let's ignore the
> > > sparse warning for v3 and try to switch phys to __be32 in a separate
> > > patch for net-next. No point adding force casts just to have to
> > > remove them a week later, given how prevalent the problem is.
> > >
> > >> or explicitly cast the argument.
> >
> > I no longer have access to the hardware, so I'm not rewriting the
> > batch. Feel free to take ownership of it and fix what's needed.
> 
> Ack.
> 
> Harini, are you the designated maintainer for this driver? Could you add a
> MAINTAINERS entry for it? I don't see one right now.
> And possibly pick up these patches / fix the problem, if you have the cycles?

Sure, Srinivas (cced) will pick up this series and send a v3.
I'll get back on the state of this IP/driver for the maintainers list. Will include
that patch in the beginning of the series as well.

Regards,
Harini