netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Replace enum efx_fc

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Message-Id: <20110517.222302.158419141035335293.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 22:23:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeff@...zik.org
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Replace enum efx_fc_type with a
 'bitwise' type

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 22:01:01 -0400

> On 05/17/2011 05:14 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> Accept that the compiler currently doesn't want to allow enums to be
>> used as bit-masks, don't paper around it.
> 
> This practice is all over the kernel.
> 
> It's a bit silly to make such a big deal, because of that.

"We do something stupid everywhere" is never a good
argument for anything.
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