On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:42:44AM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
> Continue d80211 bitfield removal. In general, compilers have
> difficulty generating efficient code for bitfields. This patchset
> removes all bitfields from include/net/d80211.h.
>
> I converted the 1 bit bitfields into a bit in a u32/u16 or u8 flags
> structure member. Larger bitfields I converted into their
> u8/u16/whatever equivalent.
For bit flags, usually it is best to use up to 32 bits of an
unsigned long, which guarantees that you use a machine integer for
all platforms.
Jeff
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