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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	jt@hpl.hp.com, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: request_firmware() hotplug interface, third round and a halve
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 17:44:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030521074456.GH23736@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030521072318.GA12973@kroah.com>

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:23:18AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > +struct firmware_priv {
> > +	char fw_id[FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX];
> > +	struct completion completion;
> > +	struct bin_attribute attr_data;
> > +	struct firmware *fw;
> > +	s32 loading:2;
> > +	u32 abort:1;
> 
> Why s32 and u32?  Why not just ints for both of them?

And for that matter, I don't think there's any point using bitfields,
61 bits is not worth it.

-- 
David Gibson			| For every complex problem there is a
david@gibson.dropbear.id.au	| solution which is simple, neat and
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-21  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-17 22:19 request_firmware() hotplug interface, third round and a halve Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21  7:23 ` Greg KH
2003-05-21  7:44   ` David Gibson [this message]
2003-05-21 18:36     ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 18:34   ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 19:03     ` Greg KH
2003-05-21 18:52   ` [PATCH] " Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 20:07     ` Greg KH
2003-05-22 15:31       ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-22 16:14         ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-22 16:34           ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-22 16:38             ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-22 16:43               ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-22 16:51                 ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-22 17:01                   ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-22 17:03                     ` Patrick Mochel
2003-05-22 17:57         ` Simon Kelley
2003-05-22 18:15           ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 21:51     ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-05-22  6:26       ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-18 16:14 Alexey Mahotkin
2003-05-18 18:17 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz

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