On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:34:39PM +0200, walter harms wrote: > int would be a more "natural" choice. > You should never use signed types for a bit field. That's just asking for a sign expansion bug. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html