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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] cpumask: New cpumask API - take 2 - use unsigned longs
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On Wednesday 01 October 2008 08:22:09 Mike Travis wrote:
> Here's an alternate proposal for the new cpumask API.  I have not yet begun
...
> +/* cpumask_t defaults to pointer to constant bit map */
> +typedef const unsigned long *cpumask_t;

Hiding a const here is not a good idea either, I think :(

Rusty.