From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING: do not add new typedefs - is that for real?
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:08:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080102100852.GA19859@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <477A6732.4010609@panasas.com>
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On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:15:46PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> I have this code:
>
> <c_code>
> /*
> * osd-r10 4.12.5 Data-In and Data-Out buffer offsets
> * byte offset = mantissa * (2^(exponent+8))
> */
> typedef __be32 osd_cdb_offset;
Given that you can't do normal arithmetic on this type it should't
really be a __be32 but it's own __bitwise type with proper accessors.
But yes, this is one of the rare cases where a typedef makes sense,
but Í'd call it osd_off_t or something like that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-02 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-01 16:15 WARNING: do not add new typedefs - is that for real? Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-02 9:58 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-01-02 10:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-01-02 12:18 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-02 20:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
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