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Message-ID: <20071021005418.GU8181@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 01:54:18 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc: torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 03:55:46AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> * irq_flags_t is marked with __bitwise__ which means sparse(1) will warn
> developer when he accidently uses wrong type or totally wrong variable.
> * irq_flags_t allows conversion to struct instead of typedef without flag day.
> This will give compile-time breakage of buggy users later.
> * irq_flags_t allows arch maintainers to eventually switch to something
> smaller than "unsigned long" if they want to.
> P.S.: Anyone checking for differences in sparse logs -- don't panic,
> just remove __bitwise__ .
Umm... Could you make that conditional on something, so that it could
be done with e.g. -D__CHECK_IRQFLAGS__? We could make that unconditional
closer to the end of conversion.
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