RE: [PATCH 1/11] lpfc 8.1.1: Miscellaneous Cleanups

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> Once you start touching these could we please get rid of the 
> bitfield for
> hardware registers abuse?  These should be proper 8/16/32 bit 
> members and
> then using bitmask as in all proper written drivers.

Agreed. A coding style that I've preached as well. But with 
existing code, it takes a while to adapt.

> That beeing said there's tons of sparse warnings in lpfc, in 
> large parts
> due to things like this.  Would be nice if someone at emulex 
> could get the
> driver sparse and endianess clean.

We'll add this to our todo list. Given the volume of the change,
don't look for this to be resolved too quickly. 

-- james s
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