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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bluetooth.h: __ variants of u8 and friends are not
 neccessary inside kernel
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
        "Gustavo F. Padovan" <gustavo@padovan.org>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 00:13 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Wed 2016-10-05 12:15:34, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 21:11 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > On Wed 2016-10-05 10:53:16, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > > > trivia:
> > > > It's generally faster to use bool instead of u8 foo:1;
> > > Ok, but I'm not changing that in this patch.
> > > (And actually, bool will take a lot more memory, right?)
> > No worries, and bool is the same size as u8.
> Exactly what I'm talking about :-). One byte vs. one bit, right?

Memory isn't bit addressable.
So it's the same byte, it just doesn't use a read/modify/write
operation to update a value.