From 9d45abe1c2949183e5d9cb25721bf1c42c7b5e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:12:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] netdevice: change net_device->promiscuity/allmulti to
 unsigned int

The comments of dev_set_allmulti/promiscuity() is that "While the count in
the device remains above zero...". So negative count is useless.
Fix the type of the counter from "int" to "unsigned int".

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 include/linux/netdevice.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index f27fd2009334..06d8ea5992df 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -595,8 +595,8 @@ struct net_device
 	int			uc_promisc;
 	struct dev_addr_list	*mc_list;	/* Multicast mac addresses	*/
 	int			mc_count;	/* Number of installed mcasts	*/
-	int			promiscuity;
-	int			allmulti;
+	unsigned int		promiscuity;
+	unsigned int		allmulti;
 
 
 	/* Protocol specific pointers */
-- 
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