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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:40:25 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080828184025.GA22165@x200.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080828183223.GA30781@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> How do you feel about this patch? It's all about making kmemcheck more
> useful... and not much else. Does it have any chance of entering the
> kernel along with kmemcheck (when/if that happens)?

DEFINE_BITFIELD is horrible.

> @@ -285,11 +286,12 @@ struct sk_buff {
>  		};
>  	};
>  	__u32			priority;
> -	__u8			local_df:1,
> +	DEFINE_BITFIELD(__u8,	flags1,
> +				local_df:1,
>  				cloned:1,
>  				ip_summed:2,
>  				nohdr:1,
> -				nfctinfo:3;
> +				nfctinfo:3);
>  	__u8			pkt_type:3,
>  				fclone:2,
>  				ipvs_property:1,


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-28 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-28 18:32 Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 18:40 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2008-08-28 18:40   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-28 20:27     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-08-28 20:54       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-28 20:59       ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 18:46   ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 19:02     ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-08-28 19:38       ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-30  8:28         ` Vegard Nossum
2008-08-28 19:05     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-28 19:07       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-28 19:18       ` Vegard Nossum

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