There's no reason why we shouldn't pack/unpack bits into/from u8 values/registers/etc., so add u8 helpers.
Use the ____MAKE_OP() macro directly to avoid having nonsense le8_encode_bits() and similar functions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <[email protected]> --- include/linux/bitfield.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/include/linux/bitfield.h b/include/linux/bitfield.h index 147a7bb341dd..65a6981eef7b 100644 --- a/include/linux/bitfield.h +++ b/include/linux/bitfield.h @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ static __always_inline base type##_get_bits(__##type v, base field) \ ____MAKE_OP(le##size,u##size,cpu_to_le##size,le##size##_to_cpu) \ ____MAKE_OP(be##size,u##size,cpu_to_be##size,be##size##_to_cpu) \ ____MAKE_OP(u##size,u##size,,) +____MAKE_OP(u8,u8,,) __MAKE_OP(16) __MAKE_OP(32) __MAKE_OP(64) -- 2.14.4
