Re: [PATCH net-next 04/24] net: dsa: mt7530: properly support MT7531AE and MT7531BE

From: Daniel Golle
Date: Wed Apr 26 2023 - 12:17:40 EST


On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 05:39:44PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 02:07:45PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 11:12:09AM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
> > > On 25.04.2023 18:04, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 11:29:13AM +0300, arinc9.unal@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > From: Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.unal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > Introduce the p5_sgmii pointer to store the information for whether port 5
> > > > > has got SGMII or not.
> > > >
> > > > The p5_sgmii your are introducing to struct mt7530_priv is a boolean
> > > > variable, and not a pointer.
> > >
> > > I must've meant to say field.
> >
> > Being just a single boolean variable also 'field' would not be the right
> > word here. We use 'field' as in 'bitfield', ie. usually disguised integer
> > types in which each bit has an assigned meaning.
>
> "field" is a perfectly legal name for a member of a C structure.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struct_(C_programming_language)
> Not to be confused with bitfield.

Right, thank you for pointing that out.
Must have slipped off my mind that all this is inside a struct, of
course...