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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:19:40 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 7/7] netdev_features: convert
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:45:42 +0200 Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> >> This whole enum could be made as bitfields, should we convert it? Would
> >> be a big patch tho ._.  
> > 
> > As always, I haven't investigated closely :) But my thinking was -
> > we are at 34 bits in priv. We just need to convert 2 of them to
> > a bitfield, pick two with fewest uses. Then we can downgrade 
> > the field to u32 from ulonglong, and we can carry on adding bitfields?  
> 
> Hmm, sounds good. You mean convert the existing bits which don't fit
> into u32 to bitfields and then add new priv flags as bitfields?

Yes