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Message-ID: <4AC4D93C.4030703@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:30:52 +0900 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@...cle.com, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, cl@...ux-foundation.org, arjan@...ux.intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/19] workqueue: update cwq alignement and make one more flag bit available David Howells wrote: > Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote: > >> The quoted code is a standard kernel technique for creating typed constants >> that are visible to the C compiler (rather than CPP) and debugger. >> >> It is found in a great many Linux kernel drivers at this point, and is >> definitely not abuse, IMO. > > Just because it's common practice, and just because you like it, doesn't make > it not abuse. But that's a side issue, and fairly irrelevant to the actual > implementation. Yeap, that's something I picked up from Jeff while working on libata and I'm quite fond of it. I haven't encountered any downside of it yet. Any reason why you think it's an abuse? But, at any rate, yeap, it's a pretty peripheral issue. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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