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@ 2021-03-04 22:34 Alex Elder
  2021-03-04 22:34 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: qualcomm: rmnet: mark trailer field endianness Alex Elder
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From: Alex Elder @ 2021-03-04 22:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: subashab, stranche, davem, kuba
  Cc: sharathv, bjorn.andersson, evgreen, cpratapa, elder, netdev,
	linux-kernel

This series converts data structures defined in <linux/if_rmnet.h>
so they use integral field values with bitfield masks rather than
rely on C bit-fields.

I first proposed doing something like this long ago when my confusion
about this code (and the memory layout it was supposed to represent)
led me to believe it was erroneous:
  https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190520135354.18628-1-elder@linaro.org/

It came up again recently, when Sharath Chandra Vurukala proposed
a new structure in "if_rmnet.h", again using C bit-fields.  I asked
whether the new structure could use field masks, and Jakub requested
that this be done.
  https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/1613079324-20166-1-git-send-email-sharathv@codeaurora.org/
I volunteered to convert the existing RMNet code to use bitfield
masks, and that is what I'm doing here.

The first three patches are more or less preparation work for the
last three.
  - The first marks two fields in an existing structure explicitly
    big endian.  They are unused by current code, so this should
    have no impact.
  - The second simplifies some code that computes the value of a
    field in a header in a somewhat obfuscated way.
  - The third eliminates some trivial accessor macros, open-coding
    them instead.  I believe the accessors actually do more harm
    than good.
  - The last three convert the structures defined in "if_rmnet.h"
    so they are defined only with integral fields, each having
    well-defined byte order.  Where sub-fields are needed, field
    masks are defined so they can be encoded or extracted using
    functions like be16_get_bits() or u8_encode_bits(), defined
    in <linux/bitfield.h>.  The three structures converted are,
    in order:  rmnet_map_header, rmnet_map_dl_csum_trailer, and
    rmnet_map_ul_csum_header.

					-Alex

Alex Elder (6):
  net: qualcomm: rmnet: mark trailer field endianness
  net: qualcomm: rmnet: simplify some byte order logic
  net: qualcomm: rmnet: kill RMNET_MAP_GET_*() accessor macros
  net: qualcomm: rmnet: use field masks instead of C bit-fields
  net: qualcomm: rmnet: don't use C bit-fields in rmnet checksum trailer
  net: qualcomm: rmnet: don't use C bit-fields in rmnet checksum header

 .../ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c  | 11 ++--
 .../net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map.h   | 12 ----
 .../qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_command.c        | 11 +++-
 .../ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_map_data.c  | 60 ++++++++---------
 include/linux/if_rmnet.h                      | 65 +++++++++----------
 5 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)

-- 
2.20.1


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2021-03-04 22:34 ` [PATCH net-next 1/6] net: qualcomm: rmnet: mark trailer field endianness Alex Elder
2021-03-05  4:03   ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-03-04 22:34 ` [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: qualcomm: rmnet: simplify some byte order logic Alex Elder
2021-03-05  4:07   ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-03-05 21:02     ` Alex Elder
2021-03-04 22:34 ` [PATCH net-next 3/6] net: qualcomm: rmnet: kill RMNET_MAP_GET_*() accessor macros Alex Elder
2021-03-05  4:16   ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-03-04 22:34 ` [PATCH net-next 4/6] net: qualcomm: rmnet: use field masks instead of C bit-fields Alex Elder
2021-03-05  4:50   ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-03-04 22:34 ` [PATCH net-next 5/6] net: qualcomm: rmnet: don't use C bit-fields in rmnet checksum trailer Alex Elder
2021-03-05  4:54   ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-03-04 22:34 ` [PATCH net-next 6/6] net: qualcomm: rmnet: don't use C bit-fields in rmnet checksum header Alex Elder
2021-03-05  5:26   ` Bjorn Andersson
2021-03-05 20:48     ` Alex Elder
2021-03-04 22:43 ` [PATCH net-next 0/6] net: qualcomm: rmnet: stop using C bit-fields Alex Elder
2021-03-05  3:44 ` subashab
2021-03-05  4:51   ` Alex Elder

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