Re: [PATCH 6/7] staging:rtl8192u: Remove unused member variable - Style

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Aug 05 2018 - 10:22:54 EST


On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 10:18:58AM +0100, John Whitmore wrote:
> Remove name of 'reserved' bitfield member which is simply used to pad
> the bitfield to a byte boundary. The actual bit has been left in place
> so alignment should not change. The name, which is not required has
> been removed.
>
> This is a coding style change which should have no impact on runtime
> code execution.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Whitmore <johnfwhitmore@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h
> index 3cfeac0d7214..fc449806dab8 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h
> @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ struct cb_desc {
> u8 bBroadcast:1;
> //u8 reserved2:2;
> u8 drv_agg_enable:1;
> - u8 reserved2:1;
> + u8:1;

No, this is ok, and a common thing to do. Anonymous bit fields is not a
normal thing.

thanks,

greg k-h