There has been some confusion since checkpatch started warning about bool use in structures, and people have been avoiding using it. Many people feel there is still a legitimate place for bool in structures, so provide some guidance on bool usage derived from the entire thread that spawned the checkpatch warning.
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| 6368 | 6368 | } |
| 6369 | 6369 | } |
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| 6371 | −# check for bool bitfields | |
| 6372 | − if ($sline =~ /^.\s+bool\s*$Ident\s*:\s*\d+\s*;/) { | |
| 6373 | − WARN("BOOL_BITFIELD", | |
| 6374 | − "Avoid using bool as bitfield. Prefer bool bitfields as unsigned int or u<8|16|32>\n" . $herecurr); | |
| 6375 | − } | |
| 6376 | − | |
| 6377 | −# check for bool use in .h files | |
| 6378 | − if ($realfile =~ /\.h$/ && | |
| 6379 | − $sline =~ /^.\s+bool\s*$Ident\s*(?::\s*d+\s*)?;/) { | |
| 6380 | − CHK("BOOL_MEMBER", | |
| 6381 | − "Avoid using bool structure members because of possible alignment issues - see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/384\n" . $herecurr); | |
| 6382 | − } | |
| 6383 | − | |
| 6384 | 6371 | # check for semaphores initialized locked |
| 6385 | 6372 | if ($line =~ /^.\s*sema_init.+,\W?0\W?\)/) { |
| 6386 | 6373 | WARN("CONSIDER_COMPLETION", |