linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: make variable data a u32

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Message-ID: <aJnj0e8P8ttlRf1r@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:36:33 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
	Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...s.st.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-stm32@...md-mailman.stormreply.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: make variable data a u32

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 12:12:11PM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Make data a u32 instead of an unsigned long, this way it is
> explicitly the same width as the operations performed on it
> and the same width as a writel store, and it cleans up sign
> extention warnings when 64 bit static analysis is performed
> on the code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Thanks!

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