Sparse warns that the assignment of the metadata mask for a QMAP endpoint in ipa_endpoint_init_hdr_metadata_mask() is a bad assignment. We know we want the mask value to be big endian, even though the value we write is in host byte order. Use a __force tag to indicate we really mean it.
Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <el...@linaro.org> --- drivers/net/ipa/ipa_endpoint.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_endpoint.c b/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_endpoint.c index 9f4be9812a1f3..448d89da1e456 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_endpoint.c +++ b/drivers/net/ipa/ipa_endpoint.c @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ static void ipa_endpoint_init_hdr_metadata_mask(struct ipa_endpoint *endpoint) /* Note that HDR_ENDIANNESS indicates big endian header fields */ if (endpoint->data->qmap) - val = cpu_to_be32(IPA_ENDPOINT_QMAP_METADATA_MASK); + val = (__force u32)cpu_to_be32(IPA_ENDPOINT_QMAP_METADATA_MASK); iowrite32(val, endpoint->ipa->reg_virt + offset); } -- 2.27.0