linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Clean up x86 control register and MSR macros

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Message-ID: <461BC9DE.5030009@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:31:10 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Virtualization <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up x86 control register and MSR macros

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Is having separate bit numbers and masks useful?  If so, is it worth
> doing for the others?
> 

I presume it's useful, or at least *used* in the current code, since 
that was there already.  If deemed useful, it's something we could add 
to the other bitmasks.

	-hpa
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