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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:46:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020722154656.A19039@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207221538580.9004-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from mingo@elte.hu on Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:43:50PM +0200

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:43:50PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i'm not so sure about flags_t. 'unsigned long' worked pretty well so far,
> and i do not see the need for a more complex (or more opaque) irqflags
> type. It's not that we confuse flags with some other flag all that
> frequently that would necessiate some structure-based more abstract
> protection of these variables.

It's just that we don't really care what it is.  But the type change
wasn't my main point, rather the returning of the flags value in
irq_save to allow implementing it as non-macro.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-22 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-21 18:50 [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A1 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 19:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-21 19:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 19:24     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:41       ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A5 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:50         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:59           ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A7 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:26             ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:46               ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-21 21:56                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:20                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-22  0:31                     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22  0:40                       ` Russell King
2002-07-22  0:55                         ` Robert Love
2002-07-22 13:01                         ` [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:20                           ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:23                             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:26                               ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:26                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:30                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:36                                     ` [patch] remove-irqlock-2.5.27-D7 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:38                                 ` [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2 Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:43                                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:49                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 14:00                                       ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-22 14:07                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:24                             ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-07-22 13:43                             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:46                               ` Russell King
2002-07-22 13:49                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-30  9:17                                   ` Pavel Machek
2002-07-22 13:57                                 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-07-22 14:05                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 14:27                                     ` Russell King
2002-07-22 14:28                                       ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 13:46                               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-07-22 13:52                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22 17:13                           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-07-22 18:01                             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-23  6:48                             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-22  1:00                       ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A9 Robert Love
2002-07-21 23:43                   ` Russell King
2002-07-21 23:44                     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:47                       ` Russell King
2002-07-21 23:58                         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-22  1:04                       ` Alan Cox
2002-07-21 23:52                         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 22:17           ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A5 Alan Cox
2002-07-21 19:38     ` [patch] "big IRQ lock" removal, 2.5.27-A1 Robert Love
2002-07-21 22:19       ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:55         ` Robert Love
2002-07-21 19:58 ` Russell King
2002-07-21 20:09   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 20:42   ` Russell King
2002-07-21 21:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:18       ` Russell King
2002-07-21 21:20         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:29         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 21:39         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-07-21 23:23         ` Ingo Molnar

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