[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: use __u32 instead of uint32_t in uapi headers

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 7/22/19 8:39 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:25 PM Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
>>
>>   struct snd_sof_blk_hdr {
>>          enum snd_sof_fw_blk_type type;
>> -       uint32_t size;          /* bytes minus this header */
>> -       uint32_t offset;        /* offset from base */
>> +       __u32 size;             /* bytes minus this header */
>> +       __u32 offset;           /* offset from base */
>>   } __packed;
>>
> 
> On a related note: Using an 'enum' in an ABI structure is not portable
> across architectures. This is probably fine in a UAPI as long as user
> and kernel space agree on the size of an enum, but if the same
> structure is used to talk to the firmware, it won't work on architectures
> that have a different size for the first field.

yes, we've removed all enums in SOF and missed this one. This should be 
changed, thanks for the note.