From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
sakari.ailus@maxwell.research.nokia.com,
broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com, lennart@poettering.net
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v6 02/12] media: Media device
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:30:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011251830.40522.laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1q7hf5w7lvslx3nba6ooh9j2.1290705631030@email.android.com>
Hi Andy,
On Thursday 25 November 2010 18:20:31 Andy Walls wrote:
> 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 think so too.
> I am assuming C compilers would never assume multibyte "char"s.
Not on sane platforms I guess. We would have problems much worse than MC API
breakage in that case anyway :-)
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-25 17:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-25 17:20 Andy Walls
2010-11-25 17:30 ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]
2010-11-25 18:06 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-25 2:28 [RFC/PATCH v6 00/12] Media controller (core and V4L2) Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 2:28 ` [RFC/PATCH v6 02/12] media: Media device Laurent Pinchart
2010-11-25 9:33 ` Clemens Ladisch
2010-11-25 14:42 ` Laurent Pinchart
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