Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/6] net: lan966x: add port module support

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Nov 25 2021 - 10:01:19 EST


> If I undestood you correctly I have tried to do the following:
>
> struct lan966x_ifh {
> __be32 timestamp;
> __be32 bypass : 1;
> __be32 port : 3;
> ...
> };
>
> But then I start to get errors from sparse:
>
> error: invalid bitfield specifier for type restricted __be32.

Maybe look at struct iphdr. It has bitfields for the header length and
the IP version.

Andrew