From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik•org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: bhutchings@solarflare•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Replace enum efx_fc_type with a 'bitwise' type
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 22:59:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD335F6.3010501@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110517.222302.158419141035335293.davem@davemloft.net>
On 05/17/2011 10:23 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik<jeff@garzik•org>
>
>> 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.
grepping across the kernel, it is clearly a useful shorthand technique
for defining typed, named constants, including bitmasks, used widely
across multiple subsystems, drivers and include/linux.
Given that this technique has passed review time and again, and that
kernel hackers -do- find it useful for valid reasons, I guess the only
remaining defense is to call something "stupid."
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-18 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 18:14 sfc: an enumeration is not a bitmask David Miller
2011-05-17 18:18 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-17 18:23 ` David Miller
2011-05-17 18:48 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Suppress warning about combining enum flags by gcc 4.5 Ben Hutchings
2011-05-17 19:26 ` David Miller
2011-05-17 21:06 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Replace enum efx_fc_type with a 'bitwise' type Ben Hutchings
2011-05-17 21:14 ` David Miller
2011-05-17 21:22 ` Joe Perches
2011-05-17 21:28 ` David Miller
2011-05-17 21:30 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-17 21:36 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-17 21:43 ` Joe Perches
2011-05-17 21:43 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Replace enum efx_fc_type with macros and type alias Ben Hutchings
2011-05-17 21:45 ` David Miller
2011-05-18 2:01 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Replace enum efx_fc_type with a 'bitwise' type Jeff Garzik
2011-05-18 2:23 ` David Miller
2011-05-18 2:59 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2011-05-17 18:57 ` sfc: an enumeration is not a bitmask Jeff Garzik
2011-05-17 19:09 ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-17 19:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-17 22:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-05-17 23:19 ` Michał Mirosław
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