linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p

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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 15:15:00 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	adobriyan@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lucho@...kov.net, ericvh@...il.com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix flags length in net 9p

On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:50:38 -0400 (EDT)
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> > +		typecheck(unsigned long, flags);

ooh, I'd forgotten about typecheck.

Just use typecheck.  The BUILD_BUG_ON is overkill.

> We can simply have all users of flags use the new irqflags_t type, and
> just do a one time big patch (grant you, that would break all pending
> patches before that). But we can also write up a script that can convert
> patches as well.

y:/usr/src/linux-2.6.25> grep -rl 'unsigned long flags' . | wc -l
2311

eargh.  I agree with me.
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