netdev - Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 07/10] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Change vhca id valid bool field to bit flag

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Date:   Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:12:22 +0000
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
To:     Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
CC:     Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eli Britstein <elibr@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 07/10] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Change vhca id valid
 bool field to bit flag

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 07:04:39PM -0800, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> From: Eli Britstein <elibr@...lanox.com>
> 
> Change the driver flow destination struct to use bit flags with the vhca
> id valid being the 1st one. Done to avoid bool fields in structs, as
> warned by static checkers, with no functionality change.

This is a thing now? I thought the warning was not to use bool with
bitfields for some reason?

Jason