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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] streq() 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:24:13 MST."
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In message <20020923.232413.08022213.davem@redhat.com> you write:
>    From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>    Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:04:33 +1000
>    
>    For runtime checks (which are never as good) you could change the GFP_
>    defined to set the high bit.
> 
> Another idea is to make a gfp_flags_t, that worked very well
> for things like mm_segment_t.

But you can't or them together without some icky macro, unless they're
typedef to an integer type in which case gcc doesn't warn you if you
just stuck a "sizeof(x)" in there.

Rusty.
--
  Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
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