The signedness of char is ambiguous for 8 bit data, which is why an API would 
normally use u8 (or s8, I guess).

Since this is known to be character data, I would think char would be fine.  I 
am assuming C compilers would never assume multibyte "char"s.

Regards,
Andy

Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinch...@ideasonboard.com> wrote:

>Hi Clemens,
>
>Thanks for the review.
>
>On Thursday 25 November 2010 10:33:02 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>> Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> > +struct media_device {
>> > ...
>> > +  u8 model[32];
>> > +  u8 serial[40];
>> > +  u8 bus_info[32];
>> 
>> All drivers and userspace applications have to treat this as char[], so
>> why u8[]?
>
>Good question. I've copied the V4L2 practice of using u8 (or __u8) for fixed-
>length strings in structures. I can't think of any reason for that.
>
>I will replace u8 with char unless someone comes up with a good reason to keep 
>u8.
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>
>Laurent Pinchart
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