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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: adobriyan@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lucho@ionkov.net, ericvh@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 15:15:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080501151500.1afbd227.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0805011748270.12785@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:50:38 -0400 (EDT)
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> > +		typecheck(unsigned long, flags);

ooh, I'd forgotten about typecheck.

Just use typecheck.  The BUILD_BUG_ON is overkill.

> We can simply have all users of flags use the new irqflags_t type, and
> just do a one time big patch (grant you, that would break all pending
> patches before that). But we can also write up a script that can convert
> patches as well.

y:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25> grep -rl 'unsigned long flags' . | wc -l
2311

eargh.  I agree with me.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-01 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-01 21:08 Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-01 21:25   ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 21:26   ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-01 21:38     ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 21:41     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-01 22:01       ` Daniel Walker
2008-05-01 22:07     ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-01 22:32     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-05-01 21:46       ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 22:29   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-05-01 21:50     ` Steven Rostedt
2008-05-01 22:15       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-01 22:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-02 11:39 ` Enrico Weigelt

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