Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool v4 1/2] ethtool-copy.h:sync with net

From: "John W. Linville" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:55:07 -0500

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:24:47AM -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
> It looks like this patch somehow misses the following commit:
> 
> commit 85a624403c77c3f074931aefdfced59f61b668cb
> Author: Jesse Brandeburg <[email-masked]>
> Date:   Thu Oct 13 16:13:55 2016 -0700
> 
>     ethtool: silence warning on bit loss
>     
>     Sparse was complaining when we went to prototype some code
>     using ethtool_cmd_speed_set and SPEED_100000, which uses
>     the upper 16 bits of __u32 speed for the first time.
>     
>     CHECK
>     ...
>     .../uapi/linux/ethtool.h:123:28: warning:
>       cast truncates bits from constant value (186a0 becomes 86a0)
>     
>     The warning is actually bogus, as no bits are really lost, but
>     we can get rid of the sparse warning with this one small change.
>     
>     Reported-by: Preethi Banala <[email-masked]>
>     Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <[email-masked]>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email-masked]>
> 
> Plus, the referenced commit does not seem to exist in the net-next tree.
> 
> Please resubmit with the complete history and correct commit IDs -- thanks!

I mean, of course, all the preceding changes accounted for -- not
every commit explicitly listed. The top commit does, of course,
need to reflect the correct commit ID from Dave's/Linus's tree.
 
John
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