Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261334AbVCGLYU (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 06:24:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261342AbVCGLYU (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 06:24:20 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:23199 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261334AbVCGLYJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 06:24:09 -0500 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20050303123448.462c56cd.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050303123448.462c56cd.akpm@osdl.org> <20050302135146.2248c7e5.akpm@osdl.org> <20050302090734.5a9895a3.akpm@osdl.org> <9420.1109778627@redhat.com> <31789.1109799287@redhat.com> <13767.1109857095@redhat.com> To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, davidm@snapgear.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information X-Mailer: MH-E 7.82; nmh 1.0.4; GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:23:44 +0000 Message-ID: <9268.1110194624@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 578 Lines: 16 Andrew Morton wrote: > > Making these into bitfields would result in having to use three variables > > instead of just the one. > > Well let's do one or the other, and not have it half-and-half, please. So I should fold the two other bitfields back into the capabilities mask and make it an unsigned long. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/