linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API

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Message-ID: <48B6F77C.70702@cs.helsinki.fi>
Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:07:40 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
CC:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API

Hi Alexey,

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>> Would it help (to make this less
>> horrible) to omit the type declaration and have just the bitfield
>> members as arguments to the macro?
> 
> Or you can parse instruction stream a bit more.

Uhm, I'm not sure how that would work out. I mean, we'd need to see if 
parts of the loaded byte are used or not... Doesn't sound practical or 
too pretty.

		Pekka
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