netdev - Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/pch

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Message-ID: <20100831183331.5a6aa508@nehalam>
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:33:31 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Masayuki Ohtake <masa-korg@....okisemi.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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	MeeGo <meego-dev@...go.com>, "Wang, Qi" <qi.wang@...el.com>,
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	Tomoya Morinaga <morinaga526@....okisemi.com>,
	Takahiro Shimizu <shimizu394@....okisemi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/pch_gbe: Cleanup stats use

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:38:35 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

>  struct pch_gbe_stats {
> -	signed char stat_string[ETH_GSTRING_LEN];
> -	int sizeof_stat;
> -	int stat_offset;
> +	signed char string[ETH_GSTRING_LEN];
> +	size_t size;
> +	size_t offset;
>  };

Is this driver really using 'signed char' here?
Should just be 'char' for a simple string.
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