On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 03:52:09PM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> On 2019-01-31 3:39 p.m., Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/msi.h b/include/linux/msi.h
> >> index 784fb52b9900..6458ab049852 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/msi.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/msi.h
> >> @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ struct msi_desc {
> >> __u8 multi_cap : 3;
> >> __u8 maskbit : 1;
> >> __u8 is_64 : 1;
> >> + __u8 is_virtual : 1;
> >
> > You did the right thing by using the same style as what's already
> > here, but does anybody know why are we using __u8 and __u16 here?
> >
> > Those typedefs are in include/uapi/asm-generic/int-l64.h, which
> > suggests they're for things exported to user space, but I don't think
> > that's the case here, so I'm wondering if we could someday replace
> > these with u8 and u16. Obviously that wouldn't be part of *this*
> > series.
>
> Yes, I was also confused by this. But I always follow the "when-in-rome"
> rule.
Thanks for following the "when-in-rome" rule. That seems so obvious
that it wouldn't even need to be written down, but it is often
ignored.
> My understanding is the same as yours is that __u8 should be used
> for userspace compatibility which doesn't apply here. If there is
> consensus on this being wrong, I'd be happy to write a cleanup patch
> that fixes it separate from this series.
That'd be awesome. There are also a couple more in pci-driver.c that
could be fixed at the same time.
Bjorn
