netdev - [PATCH] net: make in_aton() 32-bit internally

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:58:26 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: make in_aton() 32-bit internally

Converting IPv4 address doesn't need 64-bit arithmetic.

Space savings: 10 bytes!

	add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-10 (-10)
	function                          old     new   delta
	in_aton                            96      86     -10

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 net/core/utils.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/utils.c
+++ b/net/core/utils.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_ratelimit);
 
 __be32 in_aton(const char *str)
 {
-	unsigned long l;
+	unsigned int l;
 	unsigned int val;
 	int i;