Re: [PATCH 1/1] mmc: Standardise capability type

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 October 2012, Lee Jones wrote:
> > 
> > There are discrepancies with regards to how MMC capabilities
> > are carried throughout the subsystem. Let's standardise them
> > to elevate any confusion.
> > 
> > Cc: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
> > Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
> 
> Why make it "unsigned long" then? I think that adds to the
> confusion because it's sometimes 32 bits and sometimes 64 bits,
> depending on the CPU. Since it's a bitmask, I would suggest
> using u32 to make the size explicit.

I'm not sure that it leaves any confusion. It perhaps wastes a little
space on 64bit architectures, but that also applies to a great deal
of other bitmasks floating around.

I can do it if you feel that passionate about it, but it's a bigger
job to hunt down all occurrences and change them over. I only felt
strongly enough about it to craft this patch because I noticed the
inconsistency as I created new populate caps for OF functionality.

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Lee Jones
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