Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 00:01:07 -0700
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based
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Andrew wrote:
> In that case the cpumask code should provide some API function which
> converts a cpumask_t into (and from?) some canonical and documented form. 
> Then you copy what it gave you to userspace.

Exactly.  I said something similar in my earlier reply.
But not the same.  Andrew nailed it.

And the bitmap code should provide that conversion code,
since cpumask is just (soon, I hope ;) a thin layer on
bitmap.

And there might be bitop or byteorder arch specific code
beneath that.

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