linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH v6 02/12] media: Media device

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Message-Id: <201011251830.40522.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:30:39 +0100
From:	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To:	Andy Walls <awalls@...metrocast.net>
Cc:	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sakari.ailus@...well.research.nokia.com,
	broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com, lennart@...ttering.net
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v6 02/12] media: Media device

Hi Andy,

On Thursday 25 November 2010 18:20:31 Andy Walls wrote:
> The signedness of char is ambiguous for 8 bit data, which is why an API
> would normally use u8 (or s8, I guess).
> 
> Since this is known to be character data, I would think char would be fine.

I think so too.

> I am assuming C compilers would never assume multibyte "char"s.

Not on sane platforms I guess. We would have problems much worse than MC API 
breakage in that case anyway :-)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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