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On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> If we go for a single active flag at a time, I would call that
> "cmd" rather than "flags". Each command would be a power
> of two. Only one cmd could be passed as argument (no "or" mask).
> QUERY would return a mask of the supported commands.

That's what I told you, except that I named it opmode :)

Thanks,

	tglx