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SubjectRe: [driver-core PATCH v5 5/9] driver core: Establish clear order of operations for deferred probe and remove
Hi!

> > One change I made in addition is I replaced the use of "bool X:1" to define
> > the bitfield to a "u8 X:1" setup in order to resolve some checkpatch
> > warnings.
>
> Please use "bool X:1" instead of "u8 X:1". I think it was a bad idea to make
> checkpatch complain about "bool X:1" since "bool X:1" should only be avoided
> in structures for which alignment must be architecture-independent. For struct
> device it is fine if member alignment differs per architecture. Additionally,
> changing "bool X:1" into "u8 X:1" will reduce performance on architectures that
> cannot do byte addressing.

Should we introduce typedef bit boolean "bbool" and set it
appropriately, so that architecture sets it "right" and people just
use it?
Pavel
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