Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: ncsi: Fix GCPS 64-bit member variables

[Paolo Abeni]

On 4/11/25 1:22 PM, Paul Fertser wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 10:22:47AM -0700, kalavakunta.hari.prasad@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Hari Kalavakunta <kalavakunta.hari.prasad@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Correct Get Controller Packet Statistics (GCPS) 64-bit wide member
>> variables, as per DSP0222 v1.0.0 and forward specs. The Driver currently
>> collects these stats, but they are yet to be exposed to the user.
>> Therefore, no user impact.
>>
>> Statistics fixes:
>> Total Bytes Received (byte range 28..35)
>> Total Bytes Transmitted (byte range 36..43)
>> Total Unicast Packets Received (byte range 44..51)
>> Total Multicast Packets Received (byte range 52..59)
>> Total Broadcast Packets Received (byte range 60..67)
>> Total Unicast Packets Transmitted (byte range 68..75)
>> Total Multicast Packets Transmitted (byte range 76..83)
>> Total Broadcast Packets Transmitted (byte range 84..91)
>> Valid Bytes Received (byte range 204..11)
>>
>> v2:
>> - __be64 for all 64 bit GCPS counters
>>
>> v3:
>> - be64_to_cpup() instead of be64_to_cpu()
> 
> Usually the changelog should go after --- so it's not included in the
> final commit message when merged. I hope in this case the maintainers
> will take care of this manually so no need to resend unless they ask
> to.
> 
> Other than that,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paul Fertser <fercerpav@xxxxxxxxx>

@Paul: it's not clear to me if as a consequence of the discussion
running on v2 of this patch you prefer reverting back to be64_to_cpu().

The packet alignement should yield to the correct code in both cases.

/P