Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: type change from uint<bits>_t to u<bits>
Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:41:41 +0300
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 10:19:52AM +0000, David Laight wrote: > As a separate issue, what is the purpose of all these bit-field structures? > You can't portably use C bit-fields to map hardware registers or network > packets. > It isn't just byte-order, the 'bit order' can differ even for the same > endianness. Huh. I didn't know that. Can you give an example? regards, dan carpenter