From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Walleij Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/06] input/rmi4: Core files Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:37:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1349496603-20775-1-git-send-email-cheiny@synaptics.com> <1349496603-20775-3-git-send-email-cheiny@synaptics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christopher Heiny Cc: Greg KH , Dmitry Torokhov , Jean Delvare , Linux Kernel , Linux Input , Allie Xiong , Vivian Ly , Daniel Rosenberg , Joerie de Gram , Wolfram Sang , Mathieu Poirier , Linus Walleij , Naveen Kumar Gaddipati , Alexandra Chin List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Christopher Heiny wrote: > On Thursday, October 11, 2012 02:21:53 AM I wrote: >> > +union pdt_properties { >> > + struct { >> > + u8 reserved_1:6; >> > + u8 has_bsr:1; >> > + u8 reserved_2:1; >> > + } __attribute__((__packed__)); >> > + u8 regs[1]; >> >> I don't understand what this union is trying to achieve. >> >> regs[1] does not look right considering what you're trying to >> achieve. Since the above fields require a regs[2] (9 bits!) >> to be stored. Maybe write out what you're trying to do here >> so I can understand it? (If everyone else in the world gets >> it immediately, it's maybe me that need fixing instead...) >> >> Apart from these remarks it's looking real nice now! > > I only count 8 bits there, unless there's something about > packing I'm not aware of. Is there something else you > found confusing about the union? I just did bad maths, too many figured in the struct... But consider Dmitry's suggestion that you might get rid of this unionizing. Yours, Linus Walleij