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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	'Eric Dumazet' <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@gmail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.co.jp>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>,
	Enke Chen <enchen@paloaltonetworks.com>,
	Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Use BIT() for OPTION_* constants
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 09:38:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60a45fd0-7055-e2ca-8254-1ccbc3fb7370@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b48f1ae32ba49f38dcfe11f912c4ace@AcuMS.aculab.com>



On 11/4/21 2:17 AM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet
>> Sent: 03 November 2021 22:50
>>
>> On 11/3/21 3:17 PM, Leonard Crestez wrote:
>>> Extending these flags using the existing (1 << x) pattern triggers
>>> complaints from checkpatch. Instead of ignoring checkpatch modify the
>>> existing values to use BIT(x) style in a separate commit.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <cdleonard@gmail.com>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I guess checkpatch does not know that we currently use at most 16 bits :)
>>
>> u16 options = opts->options;
>>
>> Anyway, this seems fine.
> 
> Doesn't BIT() have a nasty habit of generating 64bit constants
> that just cause a different set of issues when inverted?
> It may be safe here - but who knows.

BIT() does not use/force 64bit constants, plain "unsigned long" ones.

Really this patch looks a nop to me.

      reply	other threads:[~2021-11-04 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-03 22:17 [PATCH] tcp: Use BIT() for OPTION_* constants Leonard Crestez
2021-11-03 22:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2021-11-04  9:17   ` David Laight
2021-11-04 16:38     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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