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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:49:48 -0700
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:


> Nobody used to care, because we used to not use that broken type in the kernel.

I've been told that gcc works better with 'bool' than with an int.
Should I replace those bools with bit fields in the structure?

-- Steve
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