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Date:	Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:12:15 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Muthu Kumar <muthu.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, martin.petersen@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix setting bio flags in drivers (sd_dif/floppy).

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:22:14 -0500
Muthu Kumar <muthu.lkml@...il.com> wrote:

> Fix setting bio flags in drivers (sd_dif/floppy).
> 
> ...
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> index 9baf11e..744f078 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> @@ -3832,7 +3832,7 @@ static int __floppy_read_block_0(struct
> block_device *bdev)
>  	bio.bi_size = size;
>  	bio.bi_bdev = bdev;
>  	bio.bi_sector = 0;
> -	bio.bi_flags = BIO_QUIET;
> +	bio.bi_flags = (1 << BIO_QUIET);
>  	init_completion(&complete);
>  	bio.bi_private = &complete;
>  	bio.bi_end_io = floppy_rb0_complete;
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd_dif.c b/drivers/scsi/sd_dif.c
> index 0cb39ff..f8fb2d6 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/sd_dif.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd_dif.c
> @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ int sd_dif_prepare(struct request *rq, sector_t
> hw_sector, unsigned int sector_s
>  			kunmap_atomic(sdt, KM_USER0);
>  		}
> 
> -		bio->bi_flags |= BIO_MAPPED_INTEGRITY;
> +		bio->bi_flags |= (1 << BIO_MAPPED_INTEGRITY);
>  	}
> 
>  	return 0;

urgh.  This isn't the first time.

It's too easy for people to make this mistake.  I'm not sure what a
good fix would be - I don't think sparse can save us with __bitwise or
similar.

The approach we took in buffer_head.h with BH_Foo and BUFFER_FNS
accessors worked pretty well.

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