Re: [PATCH 16/36] tty: use u8 for chars

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Mon Aug 14 2023 - 02:36:11 EST


On 11. 08. 23, 12:28, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2023, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:

This makes all those 'unsigned char's an explicit 'u8'. This is part of
the continuing unification of chars and flags to be consistent u8.

This approaches tty_port_default_receive_buf(). Flags to be next.
...>> diff --git a/include/linux/tty_buffer.h b/include/linux/tty_buffer.h
index 6ceb2789e6c8..6f2966b15093 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_buffer.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_buffer.h
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ struct tty_buffer {
unsigned long data[];
};
-static inline unsigned char *char_buf_ptr(struct tty_buffer *b, int ofs)
+static inline u8 *char_buf_ptr(struct tty_buffer *b, int ofs)
{
- return ((unsigned char *)b->data) + ofs;
+ return ((u8 *)b->data) + ofs;
}

Any particular reason why b->data is left unsigned long?

Nope :):
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jirislaby/linux.git/commit/?h=devel&id=57c9d0cbe1ad69957a2092b66dc31dc1da4d1d4b

I am dumb not mentioning it in 00/36, see my e-mail there.

thanks,
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js
suse labs