From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] gfp flags annotations
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:56:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051007025644.GA11132@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051006201534.GX7992@ftp.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:15:34PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Speaking of that... IMO we should do the following:
>
> a) typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;
> b) replace __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly the same
> warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change generated code and
> documents what's going on far better. If we are using __nocast for anything
> else - sure, let it stay.
> c) then replace __nocast in declaration of gfp_t with __bitwise [*], add
> force cast to gfp_t to definitions of __GFP_... and deal with resulting
> warnings.
>
> Objections?
None from me, this will be a good thing to have.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-07 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-05 3:58 [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git3-bird1 viro
2005-09-05 15:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-09-05 16:03 ` viro
2005-09-05 16:47 ` [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git5-bird1 viro
2005-09-05 21:20 ` [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git5-bird2 viro
2005-09-07 18:31 ` [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git7-bird1 viro
2005-09-12 19:17 ` [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git12-bird1 Al Viro
2005-09-12 19:20 ` Al Viro
2005-09-30 12:08 ` [PATCHSET] 2.6.14-rc2-git8-bird1 Al Viro
2005-09-30 12:56 ` kernel cross-toolchain (FC4) Al Viro
2005-09-30 16:09 ` kernel cross-toolchain (Gentoo) Alexey Dobriyan
2005-09-30 16:05 ` Al Viro
2005-09-30 17:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-09-30 19:31 ` Al Viro
2005-09-30 22:28 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-09-30 19:06 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-10-04 20:30 ` [PATCHSET] 2.6.14-rc3-git4-bird1 Al Viro
2005-10-05 20:29 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-10-06 20:15 ` [RFC] gfp flags annotations Al Viro
2005-10-07 2:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
[not found] ` <20051007064604.GB7992@ftp.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-07 10:01 ` [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1 Alexey Dobriyan
2005-10-07 10:04 ` Heiko Carstens
2005-10-07 12:27 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-10-08 23:34 ` [RFC] gfp flags annotations Linus Torvalds
2005-10-09 1:13 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-10-09 1:06 ` Al Viro
2005-10-09 5:32 ` [RFC] gfp flags annotations - part 2 Al Viro
2005-10-09 5:35 ` [RFC] gfp flags annotations - part 3 (simple parts of mm/*) Al Viro
2005-10-09 5:36 ` [RFC] gfp flags annotations - part 4 (lib/*) Al Viro
2005-10-09 5:38 ` [RFC] gfp flags annotations - part 5 (net/*) Al Viro
2005-10-09 5:55 ` [RFC] gfp flags annotations - part 6 (simple parts of fs/*) Al Viro
2005-10-09 15:41 ` Tom Zanussi
2005-10-09 6:01 ` [RFC] gfp flags annotations - part 7 (block layer) Al Viro
2005-09-12 20:42 ` [PATCH] n_r3964: drop bogus fmt casts Alexey Dobriyan
2005-09-12 20:39 ` Al Viro
2005-09-05 18:39 ` [PATCHSET] 2.6.13-git3-bird1 viro
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