From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [take3 0/5] d80211: remove bitfields from include/net/d80211.h
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:30:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061103033049.GD2989@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061025192803.GJ19513@havoc.gtf.org>
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 03:28:03PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:17:02PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
> > That is how I originally had the patch, but then had a question about
> > increasing structure size so I dropped flags to u16 or u8 for
> > structures that were made larger by the bitfield removal.
>
> On non-x86 platforms, u16 and u8 generate shitty code too. Not as
> shitty as bitfields, but still shitty.
David, may I presume there will be a "take4"?
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-03 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-25 18:42 [take3 0/5] d80211: remove bitfields from include/net/d80211.h David Kimdon
2006-10-25 19:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-25 19:17 ` David Kimdon
2006-10-25 19:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-03 3:30 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2006-11-08 15:39 ` David Kimdon
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