Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: speakup: fix sparse "warning: expression using sizeof bool"

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 09:29:43PM +0100, Witos wrote:
> Changed bool to u8.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Piotr Witoslawski <pwitos@xxxxxxxxx>

Your From: email line and signed-off-by: line names do not match, so I
can't take this patch :(

Please fix up and resend.

> ---
>  drivers/staging/speakup/fakekey.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/fakekey.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/fakekey.c
> index 4299cf4..3dfb6bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/fakekey.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/fakekey.c
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
>  #define PRESSED 1
>  #define RELEASED 0
>  
> -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, reporting_keystroke);
> +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(u8, reporting_keystroke);

What is this fixing?  Why can't we have a bool as a per-cpu variable?
We are only writing true or false to it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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