linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] firmware: arm_scmi: Remove fixed size typing from event reports

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Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 22:39:57 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] firmware: arm_scmi: Remove fixed size typing from
 event reports

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 2:25 PM Cristian Marussi
<cristian.marussi@....com> wrote:
>
> Event reports are used to convey information describing events to the
> registered user-callbacks: they are necessarily derived from the underlying
> raw SCMI events' messages but they are not meant to expose or directly
> mirror any of those messages data layout, which belong to the protocol
> layer.
>
> Using fixed size fields mirroring messages structure is at odd with this:
> get rid of them using more generic, equivalent, typing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>

Ok, I was expecting you would go with fixed-size structures without
implied padding, but either way makes it more consistent, so this
version is good, too.

       Arnd