[PATCH 1/6] pcmcia/3c574_cs: Fix dubious bitfield warning

Richard Knutsson ricknu-0 at student.ltu.se
Tue Dec 11 20:40:56 EST 2007


Alan Cox wrote:
> 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)
>   
Guess so, but it should not handle the endians differently with such a 
change, does it?
>   
>> 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.
>   
Thought about it before and with the endian-issue it seem like a better 
solution.
So, something like this?

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