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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:11:36 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> CC: Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>, "Veeraiyan, Ayyappan" <ayyappan.veeraiyan@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, arjan@...ux.intel.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: Introduce new 10GbE driver for Intel 82598 based PCI Express adapters... Kok, Auke wrote: > but let's stay constructive here: > > ~/git/linux-2.6 $ grep -r 'unsigned int.*:1;' * | wc -l > 748 > > Is anyone going to fix those? If we don't, someone will certainly again > submit patches to add more of these bitfields, after all, some very > prominent parts of the kernel still use them. Only recently for instance > mac80211 merged like 30 of these.... and drivers/net, include etc.. > certainly has a lot of these. There is a lot of crap in the kernel. Just look at all the grotty SCSI or char drivers, for example. The first task is to avoid adding more crap :) Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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