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Message-ID: <79d93731-74ca-d6b5-b31e-87a49153e8ab@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:35:03 +0200
From:   Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To:     Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-serial <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@...il.com>,
        Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>,
        Kirk Reiser <kirk@...sers.ca>,
        Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Max Staudt <max@...as.org>,
        Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
        Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@...rulasolutions.com>,
        Andreas Koensgen <ajk@...nets.uni-bremen.de>,
        Jeremy Kerr <jk@...econstruct.com.au>,
        Matt Johnston <matt@...econstruct.com.au>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/36] tty: use u8 for chars

On 11. 08. 23, 12:28, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2023, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
> 
>> This makes all those 'unsigned char's an explicit 'u8'. This is part of
>> the continuing unification of chars and flags to be consistent u8.
>>
>> This approaches tty_port_default_receive_buf(). Flags to be next.
...>> diff --git a/include/linux/tty_buffer.h b/include/linux/tty_buffer.h
>> index 6ceb2789e6c8..6f2966b15093 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/tty_buffer.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/tty_buffer.h
>> @@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ struct tty_buffer {
>>   	unsigned long data[];
>>   };
>>   
>> -static inline unsigned char *char_buf_ptr(struct tty_buffer *b, int ofs)
>> +static inline u8 *char_buf_ptr(struct tty_buffer *b, int ofs)
>>   {
>> -	return ((unsigned char *)b->data) + ofs;
>> +	return ((u8 *)b->data) + ofs;
>>   }
> 
> Any particular reason why b->data is left unsigned long?

Nope :):
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jirislaby/linux.git/commit/?h=devel&id=57c9d0cbe1ad69957a2092b66dc31dc1da4d1d4b

I am dumb not mentioning it in 00/36, see my e-mail there.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

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