netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: ensure that phy IDs are correctly typed

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Message-ID: <20191219210100.GQ17475@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 19 Dec 2019 22:01:00 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: ensure that phy IDs are correctly typed

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:20:48AM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> PHY IDs are 32-bit unsigned quantities. Ensure that they are always
> treated as such, and not passed around as "int"s.

Hi Russell

Do we want to fix all cases?

struct phy_device *phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, int phy_id,

       Andrew