The definition of pci_channel_io_normal and friends is relatively complicated and ugly: typedef unsigned int __bitwise pci_channel_state_t; enum pci_channel_state { pci_channel_io_normal = (__force pci_channel_state_t) 1, ... }; This is clearly motivated by a desire to have some strong typing for this constants but: * in C enums are weakly typed (they're essentially the same as 'int') * sparse only allow to define bitwise ints, not bitwise enums. This series is a preparation step to introduce bitwise enums. This would allow to define these constant without having to use the force cast: enum __bitwise pci_channel_state { pci_channel_io_normal = 1, ... }; or, equivalently: typedef enum __bitwise { pci_channel_io_normal = 1, ... } pci_channel_state_t; Note: the first patch is, I think, uncontroversial, the other ones less so but can be safely dropped. Changes since v1: * add missing conversion * try to avoid using 'enum pci_channel_state' in include/linux/pci.h * try to avoid using 'enum pci_channel_state' in the documentation Luc Van Oostenryck (3): pci: use 'pci_channel_state_t' instead of 'enum pci_channel_state' pci: use anonymous 'enum' instead of 'enum pci_channel_state' pci: update to doc to use 'pci_channel_state_t' Documentation/PCI/pci-error-recovery.rst | 8 ++++---- arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c | 2 +- drivers/block/rsxx/core.c | 2 +- drivers/dma/ioat/init.c | 2 +- drivers/media/pci/ngene/ngene-cards.c | 2 +- drivers/misc/genwqe/card_base.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_main.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgb/ixgb_main.c | 4 ++-- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/efx.c | 2 +- drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/falcon/efx.c | 2 +- drivers/pci/pci.h | 2 +- drivers/pci/pcie/err.c | 4 ++-- drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c | 2 +- drivers/staging/qlge/qlge_main.c | 2 +- include/linux/pci.h | 4 ++-- 18 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) -- 2.27.0