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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:51:20 +0000
Subject: Re: Memory corruption due to word sharing
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, matz@suse.de, jkosina@suse.cz, walters@verbum.org, jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, dsterba@suse.cz, ptesarik@suse.cz, rguenther@suse.de, gcc@gcc.gnu.org

On 02/01/2012 02:09 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We have a lot of code, there's still a lot of situations left where
> bitfields are just really convenient.

Or even just s/convenient/ingrained habit/   As much as I try to avoid 
bitfields, engineers writing vendor drivers love to lay out their 
hardware structures using bitfields, leading to such crapola as

	#ifdef little endian
		a bunch of bitfields, LE arrangement
	#else
		bitfields, now in BE arrangement
	#endif

This crops up again and again in drivers :/

	Jeff