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Alex Elder
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The actual layout of bits defined in C bit-fields (e.g. int foo : 3) is implementation-defined. Structures defined in <linux/if_rmnet.h> address this by specifying all bit-fields twice, to cover two possible layouts. I think this pattern is repetitive and noisy, and I find the whole notion of compiler "bitfield endianness" to be non-intuitive. Stop using C bit-fields for the command/data flag and the pad length fields in the rmnet_map structure, and define a single-byte flags field instead. Define a mask for the single-bit "command" flag, and another mask for the encoded pad length. The content of both fields can be accessed using a simple bitwise AND operation. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@fb.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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