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Date:   Tue, 14 May 2019 15:25:21 +0200
From:   Luca Ceresoli <luca@...aceresoli.net>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: macb: fix error format in dev_err()

Hi Andrew,

On 14/05/19 14:35, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 09:14:50AM +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
>> Errors are negative numbers. Using %u shows them as very large positive
>> numbers such as 4294967277 that don't make sense. Use the %d format
>> instead, and get a much nicer -19.
> 
> Hi Luca
> 
> Do you consider this a fix? If so, it should be against David net
> tree, and have [PATCH net] in the subject. It would also be good to
> add a Fixes: tag.

Thanks for the hint! I just resent with these changes.

You can ignore this patch.
-- 
Luca