netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: net_device flags is an unsigned int

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Date:	Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:05:28 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: net_device flags is an unsigned int

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:48:14 +0100

> Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011 à 23:39 -0500, David Miller a écrit :
>> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:34:37 +0100
>> 
>> > -	unsigned short old_flags = dev->flags;
>> > +	typeof(dev->flags) old_flags = dev->flags;
>> 
>> Please, create netdev_flags_t or similar, anything but this :-)
> 
> Hmm, I thought Linus hated types like this...

Yes, it is true.  But look at netdev_features_t

> Or how explain we dont have jiffies_t or similar ? ;)

:-)

Like you I just want something that automatically tracks any future
changes to the type.  However I want something that doesn't look so
ugly like that typeof() thing.

Sure, use typeof() in macros, you can hide it in such places.

But please not in plain sight in *.c files.
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