netdev - Re: [net-next 08/15] i40e/i40evf: organize and re-number feature flags

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Date:   Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:04:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:     jacob.e.keller@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com, jogreene@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 08/15] i40e/i40evf: organize and re-number feature
 flags

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 04:08:41 -0700

> Also ensure that the flags variable is actually a u64 to guarantee
> 64bits of space on all architectures.

Why?  You don't need 64-bits, you only need 27.

This will be unnecessarily expensive on 32-bit platforms.

Please don't do this.