netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3 net-next] net: phy: remove unneeded masking of PHY register read results

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Message-ID: <20190208201954.GI1853@lunn.ch>
Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 21:19:54 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3 net-next] net: phy: remove unneeded masking of PHY
 register read results

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 08:20:34PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> PHY registers are only 16 bits wide, therefore, if the read was
> successful, there's no need to mask out the higher 16 bits.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew