linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 04/24] net: dsa: mt7530: properly support MT7531AE and MT7531BE

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Message-ID: <ZElOEAsoNXUlYL1g@makrotopia.org>
Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2023 17:15:12 +0100
From:   Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
To:     Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Cc:     Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Landen Chao <Landen.Chao@...iatek.com>,
        DENG Qingfang <dqfext@...il.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
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        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 04/24] net: dsa: mt7530: properly support
 MT7531AE and MT7531BE

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 05:39:44PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 02:07:45PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:12:09AM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> > > On 25.04.2023 18:04, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 11:29:13AM +0300, arinc9.unal@...il.com wrote:
> > > > > From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@...nc9.com>
> > > > > 
> > > > > Introduce the p5_sgmii pointer to store the information for whether port 5
> > > > > has got SGMII or not.
> > > > 
> > > > The p5_sgmii your are introducing to struct mt7530_priv is a boolean
> > > > variable, and not a pointer.
> > > 
> > > I must've meant to say field.
> > 
> > Being just a single boolean variable also 'field' would not be the right
> > word here. We use 'field' as in 'bitfield', ie. usually disguised integer
> > types in which each bit has an assigned meaning.
> 
> "field" is a perfectly legal name for a member of a C structure.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struct_(C_programming_language)
> Not to be confused with bitfield.

Right, thank you for pointing that out.
Must have slipped off my mind that all this is inside a struct, of
course...