linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/27] tty: ami: use u8 for characters and flag

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVcCpDJcBzf_g21AWfHON7=HtT+yBs--uL34UJpVRAW_Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Dec 2023 09:28:58 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/27] tty: ami: use u8 for characters and flag

Hi Jiri,

On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 8:37 AM Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@...nel.org> wrote:
> Switch character types to u8. To conform to characters in the rest of
> the tty layer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@...nel.org>

Thanks for your patch!

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

> --- a/drivers/tty/amiserial.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/amiserial.c
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct serial_state {
>         int                     quot;
>         int                     IER;    /* Interrupt Enable Register */
>         int                     MCR;    /* Modem control register */
> -       int                     x_char; /* xon/xoff character */
> +       u8                      x_char; /* xon/xoff character */
>  };
>
>  static struct tty_driver *serial_driver;
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static void receive_chars(struct serial_state *info)
>  {
>          int status;
>         int serdatr;
> -       unsigned char ch, flag;
> +       u8 ch, flag;
>         struct  async_icount *icount;
>         bool overrun = false;
>

I think it would make sense to fold this into "[PATCH 04/27] tty:
make tty_operations::send_xchar accept u8 char".

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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