netdev - Re: another race in hso

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:02:55 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Denis Joseph Barrow <D.Barow@...ion.com>
Cc:	Linux USB kernel mailing list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux netdev Mailing list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: another race in hso

Am Monday 12 January 2009 14:52:57 schrieb Denis Joseph Barrow:
> > You can change that back, although if you need flags, you shouldn't
> > use types that indicate a specific word length. That's outright evil.
> Well chars are 1 byte in most architectures the most neutral bitfield
> definition that most people go by for flags is unsigned int but I'll

char is fine. u8 is not. u8 says you need 8 bit, no more, no less.
Now, if you need just one bit, why not tell the compiler?

	Regards
		Oliver

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