[PATCH 1/6] pcmcia/3c574_cs: Fix dubious bitfield warning
Alan Cox
alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Dec 11 08:19:36 EST 2007
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:32:38 +0100 (MET)
Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0 at student.ltu.se> wrote:
> Fixing:
> CHECK drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c
> drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c:194:13: warning: dubious bitfield without explicit `signed' or `unsigned'
> drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c:196:14: warning: dubious bitfield without explicit `signed' or `unsigned'
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0 at student.ltu.se>
> ---
> Is there a reason for not doing it this way?
How is the endianness handled here (I suspect its always been broken)
> diff --git a/drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c b/drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c
> index ad134a6..97b6daa 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/pcmcia/3c574_cs.c
> @@ -190,10 +190,10 @@ enum Window3 { /* Window 3: MAC/config bits. */
> union wn3_config {
> int i;
> struct w3_config_fields {
> - unsigned int ram_size:3, ram_width:1, ram_speed:2, rom_size:2;
> - int pad8:8;
> - unsigned int ram_split:2, pad18:2, xcvr:3, pad21:1, autoselect:1;
> - int pad24:7;
> + u8 ram_size:3, ram_width:1, ram_speed:2, rom_size:2;
> + u8 pad8;
> + u8 ram_split:2, pad18:2, xcvr:3, pad21:1;
> + u8 autoselect:1, pad24:7;
Just changing the int pad to unsigned int pad would be safer in terms of
not causing changes. Simply delcaring a 32bit field and bit masks to
and/or into it is probably a lot saner in the general case.
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