Re: [PATCH] rust: net: phy: fix off-by-one bit positions in device status accessors

Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.rust-for-linux
Message-ID <CANiq72mQ8bfEw-NM4phjgp-QxEP5RpqNTkXrjjGqkX+VukqkaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 1:20 PM springbreeze
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the review!
> The literals were a stopgap; the code carried a TODO to replace them
> with bindgen-generated accessors "when it becomes possible". I checked
> the current bindgen output: it now generates layout-derived accessors
> for these bitfields (phydev.link(), phydev.autoneg(),
> phydev.autoneg_complete()), so v2 drops the hand-written offsets
> entirely and uses the generated accessors instead, which removes this
> class of bug.

netdev may prefer the minimal fix for backporting, though, i.e. the
improvement could in principle be a separate patch.

But, of course, up to them, thanks!

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Cheers,
Miguel
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