From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cleanup bitfield endianess mess
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 19:32:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211040032.gA40Wms01503@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1036366080.20423.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
> This patch defines new BITFIELDx macros to clean up the #ifdef mess with
> bitfields, and starts the conversion off with the IDE/ATAPI files.
I think it may be more reliable to talk to gcc people
about adding -fprohibit-bitfields to the compiler and eradicate
bitfields from the kernel as such. If I was the benevolent
dictator, that is what I would have done (consider yourself
fortunate I'm not :-)
-- Pete
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2002-11-04 0:32 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2002-11-03 23:21 [PATCH] Cleanup bitfield endianess mess Brian Gerst
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