From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:45:56 +0100
> This series contains a number of misc improvements and preparation
> patches for an upcoming series that adds support for the new PPv2.2
> network controller to the mvpp2 driver.
>
> The most significant improvements are:
>
> - Switching to using build_skb(), which is necessary for the upcoming
> PPv2.2 support, but anyway a good improvement to the current mvpp2
> driver (supporting PPv2.1).
>
> - Making the driver build on 64-bit platforms.
>
> Changes since v1:
>
> - This series is split as a separate series from the larger patch set
> adding support for PPv2.2 in the mvpp2 driver, as requested by
> David Miller.
>
> - Rebased on top of v4.10-rc1.
You still have warnings to fix for the 64-bit build:
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c: In function ‘mvpp2_rx’:
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c:5125:10: warning: cast to pointer from
integer of different size [-Wint-to-pointer-cast]
data = (void *)rx_desc->buf_cookie;
^
