RE: [PATCH] rtlwifi: use s8 instead of char

From: David Laight
Date: Thu Jun 16 2016 - 12:04:33 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann
> On Wednesday, June 15, 2016 5:10:51 PM CEST Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >
> > Arnd,
> >
> > rtlwifi and rtl8xxxu are two distinct drivers managed by different
> > people. I'd be really nice if you could split this into a per driver
> > patch.
> >
> > That said, the use of char in rtl8xxxu is all as a flag indicator, so I
> > don't think the s/char/s8/ conversion is justified. I used char rather
> > than ugly bool to reduce the size of the struct.
>
> Makes sense, I'll resend without that change. If anything, the flag
> should become u8, not s8 anyway.

Does bool:8 work ?

David