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Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:40:47 +0300
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] bitfields API
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Hi Alexey,

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>> How do you feel about this patch? It's all about making kmemcheck more
>> useful... and not much else. Does it have any chance of entering the
>> kernel along with kmemcheck (when/if that happens)?
> 
> DEFINE_BITFIELD is horrible.

Heh, heh, one alternative is to have a kmemcheck_memset() thingy that 
unconditionally zeroes bit fields and maybe is a no-op when kmemcheck is 
disabled.
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