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

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:24:56 +0000

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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email-masked]>

Fixes: 13d0ab6750b2 ("net: phy: check return code when requesting PHY driver module")

> ---
>  drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> index daaeae5f2d96..68d4d49286d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
> @@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ static const struct device_type mdio_bus_phy_type = {
>  	.pm = MDIO_BUS_PHY_PM_OPS,
>  };
>  
> -static int phy_request_driver_module(struct phy_device *dev, int phy_id)
> +static int phy_request_driver_module(struct phy_device *dev, u32 phy_id)
>  {
>  	int ret;
>  
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 
> 

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