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From: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] leds: renesas-tpu: cleanup a small type issue
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 08:59:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A714F7.8030904@bfs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130529070150.GC25133@debian>



Am 29.05.2013 23:15, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:34:39PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> 
>> int would be a more "natural" choice.
>>
> 
> You should never use signed types for a bit field.  That's just
> asking for a sign expansion bug.

my idea was more to use unsigned int instead of u16.
Personally i try to avoid this (artificial) types as much as possible,

re,
 wh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-30  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-29  7:02 [patch] leds: renesas-tpu: cleanup a small type issue Dan Carpenter
2013-05-29  7:21 ` walter harms
2013-05-29  7:45 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-05-29 16:59 ` Bryan Wu
2013-05-29 21:09   ` [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
2013-05-29 17:34 ` [patch] " walter harms
2013-05-29 21:15 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-05-30  8:59 ` walter harms [this message]
2013-05-30 12:02 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-05-30 17:59 ` Bryan Wu
2013-05-30 18:01 ` Bryan Wu
2013-05-31  5:44 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-05-31  5:45 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-05-31  6:38 ` Bryan Wu

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