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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Isaac Lleida <illeida@openaliasbox.org>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, armand.bastien@laposte.net,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	marius.gorski@gmail.com, domdevlin@free.fr,
	kernel-janitors-owner@vger.kernel.org,
	sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] staging: panel: change struct bits to a bit array
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 07:39:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150317063930.GC10181@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150316092531.GI10964@mwanda>

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 12:25:31PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Both "bits.e" and "BIT_CHK(bits, LCD_BIT_E_MASK)" are terrible.  The new
> one is worse because it takes more words to tell you nothing and because
> it is wrong since E is a flag not a mask.

Yep, I agree. Maybe simply renaming "bits" to "lcd_pin" in the original
code would make it more obvious what the original ones meant.

Isaac BTW, if you only want to shrink the structure, you can do it using
a single bit per pin this way :

    struct {
      char e:1;
      char rw:1;
      char rs:1;
      char sda:1;
      char scl:1;
	...
    } pins;

Sorry I don't remember exactly the list of pins, but you get the idea.

Willy


      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-17  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-15  9:03 [PATCH v4] staging: panel: change struct bits to a bit array Isaac Lleida
2015-03-16  9:25 ` Dan Carpenter
2015-03-17  6:39   ` Willy Tarreau [this message]

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