From ceee1378db2c57e3e6bea06c1ecc10e984a0bbea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Nick Koston" <nick@home-assistant.io>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 12:13:18 -1000
Subject: [PATCH] add bit layout comment to configure_entity unpacking

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 esphome/core/entity_base.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/esphome/core/entity_base.cpp b/esphome/core/entity_base.cpp
index 3b937aff4fe..15b70cfdc87 100644
--- a/esphome/core/entity_base.cpp
+++ b/esphome/core/entity_base.cpp
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ void EntityBase::configure_entity(const char *name, uint32_t object_id_hash, uin
       this->calc_object_id_();
     }
   }
+  // Unpack entity string table indices.
+  // Packed: [23..16] icon | [15..8] UoM | [7..0] device_class (each 8 bits)
 #ifdef USE_ENTITY_DEVICE_CLASS
   this->device_class_idx_ = entity_strings_packed & 0xFF;
 #endif