linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:40:25 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API

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,

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