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Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:41:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:41:41 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: David Laight Cc: Yoelvis Oliveros , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: type change from uint_t to u Message-ID: References: <20260210101952.631bf50c@pumpkin> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260210101952.631bf50c@pumpkin> On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 10:19:52AM +0000, David Laight wrote: > As a separate issue, what is the purpose of all these bit-field structures? > You can't portably use C bit-fields to map hardware registers or network > packets. > It isn't just byte-order, the 'bit order' can differ even for the same > endianness. Huh. I didn't know that. Can you give an example? regards, dan carpenter