Hi Dan,

I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on net-next/master]
[also build test WARNING on robh/for-next sparc-next/master net/master linus/master v5.7-rc6 next-20200519]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the
base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Dan-Murphy/DP83869-Enhancements/20200519-222047
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git 5cdfe8306631b2224e3f81fc5a1e2721c7a1948b
config: sparc64-randconfig-s001-20200519 (attached as .config)
reproduce:
        # apt-get install sparse
        # sparse version: v0.6.1-193-gb8fad4bc-dirty
        # save the attached .config to linux build tree
        make C=1 ARCH=sparc64 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__'

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>, old ones prefixed by <<):

In file included from include/linux/build_bug.h:5,
from include/linux/bits.h:23,
from include/linux/bitops.h:5,
from include/linux/bitmap.h:8,
from include/linux/ethtool.h:16,
from drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c:6:
drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c: In function 'dp83869_set_strapped_mode':
drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c:171:10: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
171 |  if (val < 0)
|          ^
include/linux/compiler.h:58:52: note: in definition of macro '__trace_if_var'
58 | #define __trace_if_var(cond) (__builtin_constant_p(cond) ? (cond) : __trace_if_value(cond))
|                                                    ^~~~
>> drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c:171:2: note: in expansion of macro 'if'
171 |  if (val < 0)
|  ^~
drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c:171:10: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
171 |  if (val < 0)
|          ^
include/linux/compiler.h:58:61: note: in definition of macro '__trace_if_var'
58 | #define __trace_if_var(cond) (__builtin_constant_p(cond) ? (cond) : __trace_if_value(cond))
|                                                             ^~~~
>> drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c:171:2: note: in expansion of macro 'if'
171 |  if (val < 0)
|  ^~
drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c:171:10: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type [-Wtype-limits]
171 |  if (val < 0)
|          ^
include/linux/compiler.h:69:3: note: in definition of macro '__trace_if_value'
69 |  (cond) ?              |   ^~~~
include/linux/compiler.h:56:28: note: in expansion of macro '__trace_if_var'
56 | #define if(cond, ...) if ( __trace_if_var( !!(cond , ## __VA_ARGS__) ) )
|                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c:171:2: note: in expansion of macro 'if'
171 |  if (val < 0)
|  ^~

vim +/if +171 drivers/net/phy/dp83869.c

   164	
   165	static int dp83869_set_strapped_mode(struct phy_device *phydev)
   166	{
   167		struct dp83869_private *dp83869 = phydev->priv;
   168		u16 val;
   169	
   170		val = phy_read_mmd(phydev, DP83869_DEVADDR, DP83869_STRAP_STS1);
 > 171		if (val < 0)
   172			return val;
   173	
   174		dp83869->mode = val & DP83869_STRAP_OP_MODE_MASK;
   175	
   176		return 0;
   177	}
   178	

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