netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Shrink sock.sk_err sk_err

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Date:   Tue, 5 Jul 2022 12:06:00 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>,
        Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Shrink sock.sk_err sk_err_soft to u16 from int

On Sun,  3 Jul 2022 23:06:43 +0300 Leonard Crestez wrote:
> -	int			sk_err,
> +	u16			sk_err,
>  				sk_err_soft;

While at it please remove the comma and explicitly type both fields.

BTW are there are no architectures of note which can't load 2B entities,
any more? Historically 16b is an awkward quantity for RISC arches.