Re: [PATCH 012/196] nozomi driver

[Stefan Richter]

On 1/25/2008 9:31 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jan 24 2008 23:09, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
>>+/* Big endian */
>>+
>>+struct toggles {
>>+	unsigned enabled:5;	/*
>>+				 * Toggle fields are valid if enabled is 0,
>>+				 * else A-channels must always be used.
>>+				 */
>>+	unsigned diag_dl:1;
>>+	unsigned mdm_dl:1;
>>+	unsigned mdm_ul:1;
>>+} __attribute__ ((packed));
> 
> Probably just me, unsigned int is a good bit more explicit.
> The driver may also use a combined struct with
> BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD/LITTLE_ENDIAN_BIGFIELD (see e.g. linux/ip.h).

I've been told we don't do bitfields anymore in on-the-wire data,
on-disk data, userspace ABIs, etc. because their layout is compiler
dependent in the end.
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Stefan Richter
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