linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] 24-bit types: typedef and macros for accessing 3-byte arrays as integers

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Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:25:16 -0700
From:	Chris Leech <christopher.leech@...el.com>
To:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, devel@...n-fcoe.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] 24-bit types: typedef and macros for	accessing	3-byte
 arrays as integers

Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 10:07 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
>> JFS already defines an __le24, see fs/jfs/endian24.h.  Please try to
>> cover it, too or at least make sure you don't break it.
> 
> Chris,
> This patch takes care of jfs.  Please add it to your patchset.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaggy

Thanks, I was just about to look into JFS.

> @@ -62,7 +60,7 @@ struct timestruc_t {
>   */
>  typedef struct {
>  	unsigned len:24;
> -	unsigned off1:8;
> +	u8 off1;
>  	u32 off2;
>  } lxd_t;

Shouldn't len here be changed to a __le24?  I think this just changed
the size of lxd_t by a byte.

- Chris
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