This field is never big enough to warrant 16-bitness.
8-bit accesses enjoy shorted encoding on i386/x86_64 than 16-bit
accesses:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-10 (-10)
function old new delta
loopback_setup 169 164 -5
ether_setup 148 143 -5
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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