linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations

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Message-ID: <20071022152912.GA841@linux-mips.org>
Date:	Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:29:12 +0100
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, 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 01:30:42PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> 			irq_flags_t
> 	
> New type for use with spin_lock_irqsave() and friends.

Talking about it, why did we ever require this to be a long anyway?  I could
get away with a single bit for MIPS; the rest of this variable is pure
bloat.  An abstract datatype could help finally fix this.

  Ralf
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