Re: [PATCH 10/19] workqueue: update cwq alignement and make one more flag bit available

David Howells
2009-10-01T16:22:20Z

Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> The quoted code is a standard kernel technique for creating typed constants
> that are visible to the C compiler (rather than CPP) and debugger.
>
> It is found in a great many Linux kernel drivers at this point, and is
> definitely not abuse, IMO.

Just because it's common practice, and just because you like it, doesn't make
it not abuse. But that's a side issue, and fairly irrelevant to the actual
implementation.

David