linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bluetooth.h: __ variants of u8 and friends are not neccessary inside kernel

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Date:   Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:15:34 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>, trivial@...nel.org,
        "Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@...ovan.org>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bluetooth.h: __ variants of u8 and friends are not
 neccessary inside kernel

On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 21:11 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Wed 2016-10-05 10:53:16, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 13:14 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > > Hi Pavel,
> > > 
> > > > bluetooth.h is not part of user API, so __ variants are not neccessary
> > > > here.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h b/include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
> > 
> > []
> > > > struct bt_skb_cb {
> > > > -	__u8 pkt_type;
> > > > -	__u8 force_active;
> > > > -	__u16 expect;
> > > > -	__u8 incoming:1;
> > > > +	u8 pkt_type;
> > > > +	u8 force_active;
> > > > +	u16 expect;
> > > > +	u8 incoming:1;
> > > > 	union {
> > > > 		struct l2cap_ctrl l2cap;
> > > > 		struct hci_ctrl hci;
> > 
> > 
> > trivia:
> > 
> > It's generally faster to use bool instead of u8 foo:1;
> 
> Ok, but I'm not changing that in this patch.
> (And actually, bool will take a lot more memory, right?)

No worries, and bool is the same size as u8.
>