Re: [PATCH 7/7] staging: ks7010: Move from bool to int in structs

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Tue May 08 2018 - 07:42:03 EST


On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 01:34:31PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 03:03:04PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > Fixes checkpatch.pl warnings.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c | 4 ++--
> > drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan.h | 4 ++--
> > drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan_net.c | 8 ++++----
> > 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> > index 628171091786..43090922daff 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_hostif.c
> > @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ void hostif_mib_get_confirm(struct ks_wlan_private *priv)
> > case DOT11_MAC_ADDRESS:
> > hostif_sme_enqueue(priv, SME_GET_MAC_ADDRESS);
> > ether_addr_copy(priv->eth_addr, priv->rxp);
> > - priv->mac_address_valid = true;
> > + priv->mac_address_valid = 1;
>
> Wait, why? This should be bool, not an int. Why would checkpatch say
> this is incorrect?
>
> confused,
>
> greg k-h

CHECK: Avoid using bool structure members because of possible alignment issues - see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/384
#417: FILE: drivers/staging/ks7010/ks_wlan.h:417:
+ bool is_device_open;

Introduced by commit a4c4c0492dad ("checkpatch: add a --strict test for
structs with bool member definitions"). If this is wrong, please feel
free to ignore it!

Thanks,
Nathan