Subject: Re: [PATCH] bluetooth.h: __ variants of u8 and friends are not neccessary inside kernel

From: Pavel Machek <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 21:11:03 +0200

On Wed 2016-10-05 10:53:16, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 13:14 +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > Hi Pavel,
> > 
> > > bluetooth.h is not part of user API, so __ variants are not neccessary
> > > here.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[email-masked]>
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h b/include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
> []
> > > struct bt_skb_cb {
> > > -	__u8 pkt_type;
> > > -	__u8 force_active;
> > > -	__u16 expect;
> > > -	__u8 incoming:1;
> > > +	u8 pkt_type;
> > > +	u8 force_active;
> > > +	u16 expect;
> > > +	u8 incoming:1;
> > > 	union {
> > > 		struct l2cap_ctrl l2cap;
> > > 		struct hci_ctrl hci;
> 
> trivia:
> 
> It's generally faster to use bool instead of u8 foo:1;

Ok, but I'm not changing that in this patch.

(And actually, bool will take a lot more memory, right?)
									Pavel
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