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Date:   Thu, 3 Jun 2021 21:48:13 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Alex Elder' <elder@...aro.org>,
        'Manikishan Ghantasala' <manikishanghantasala@...il.com>,
        Alex Elder <elder@...e.org>
CC:     Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>,
        "greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org" <greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org>,
        "linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev" <linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [greybus-dev] [PATCH] staging: greybus: fixed the coding style,
 labels should not be indented.

From: Alex Elder
> Sent: 03 June 2021 22:46
> 
> On 6/3/21 4:22 PM, David Laight wrote:
...
> >>>> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/gpio.c
> >>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/gpio.c
> >>>> @@ -20,9 +20,9 @@
> >>>>    struct gb_gpio_line {
> >>>>        /* The following has to be an array of line_max entries */
> >>>>        /* --> make them just a flags field */
> >>>> -     u8                      active:    1,
> >>>> -                             direction: 1,   /* 0 = output, 1 = input */
> >>>> -                             value:     1;   /* 0 = low, 1 = high */
> >>>> +     u8                      active:1,
> >>>> +                             direction:1,    /* 0 = output, 1 = input */
> >>>> +                             value:1;        /* 0 = low, 1 = high */
> >
> > Why are you even using bitfields at all?
> > If you cared about the structure size you'd not have a byte-size pad here.
> 
> Apparently I committed this, and it was part of the very first
> Greybus drivers...
> 
> These would be better defined as Booleans; there are others in
> the same structure after all.  That would have avoided the
> checkpatch problem in the first place.

Using 'u8' can be sensible.
Boolean will be 32bit.

	David

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