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Message-Id: <20231215131534.7188-2-ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:15:31 +0100
From: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...adcom.com>,
	Broadcom internal kernel review list <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	David Epping <david.epping@...singlinkelectronics.com>,
	Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
	Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>,
	Harini Katakam <harini.katakam@....com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: [net-next PATCH v8 1/4] net: phy: make addr type u8 in phy_package_shared struct

Switch addr type in phy_package_shared struct to u8.

The value is already checked to be non negative and to be less than
PHY_MAX_ADDR, hence u8 is better suited than using int.

Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
---
Changes v8:
- Add Reviewed-by tag
Changes v7:
- Add this patch

 include/linux/phy.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/phy.h b/include/linux/phy.h
index e5f1f41e399c..e5e29fca4d17 100644
--- a/include/linux/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy.h
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ struct mdio_bus_stats {
  * phy_package_leave().
  */
 struct phy_package_shared {
-	int addr;
+	u8 addr;
 	refcount_t refcnt;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	size_t priv_size;
-- 
2.40.1