netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] net: pse-pd: tps23881: Fix boolean evaluation for bitmask checks

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Message-ID: <20241002145302.701e74d8@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 14:53:02 +0200
From: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kyle Swenson
 <kyle.swenson@....tech>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Oleksij Rempel
 <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] net: pse-pd: tps23881: Fix boolean evaluation
 for bitmask checks

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 05:27:32 -0700
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 05:24:31 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Wed,  2 Oct 2024 12:23:40 +0200 Kory Maincent wrote:  
> > > In the case of 4-pair PoE, this led to incorrect enabled and
> > > delivering status values.    
> > 
> > Could you elaborate? The patch looks like a noop I must be missing some
> > key aspect..  
> 
> Reading the discussion on v1 it seems you're doing this to be safe,
> because there was a problem with x &= val & MASK; elsewhere.
> If that's the case, please resend to net-next and make it clear it's
> not a fix.

Indeed it fixes this issue.
Why do you prefer to have it on net-next instead of a net? We agreed with
Oleksij that it's where it should land. Do we have missed something?

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com