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Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net sysfs: Print link speed as signed integer

From Jeremy Harris <jgh@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net sysfs: Print link speed as signed integer
Date 2015-09-29 17:20 +0200
Message-ID <qe4Rc-1Nk-33@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On 28/09/15 14:05, Alexander Stein wrote:
> Otherwise 4294967295 (MBit/s) (-1) will be printed when there is no link.
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-net does not state if this shall be
> signed or unsigned.
> Also remove the now unused variable fmt_udec.
[...]
> -			ret = sprintf(buf, fmt_udec, ethtool_cmd_speed(&cmd));
> +			ret = sprintf(buf, fmt_dec, ethtool_cmd_speed(&cmd));

If we print anything numeric, why is zero not appropriate
(which would still be unsigned)?
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Cheers,
     Jeremy
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[PATCH v2 1/1] net sysfs: Print link speed as signed integer Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@systec-electronic.com> - 2015-09-28 15:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net sysfs: Print link speed as signed integer Jeremy Harris <jgh@redhat.com> - 2015-09-29 17:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] net sysfs: Print link speed as signed integer David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-09-30 00:00 +0200

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