Re: [PATCH] linuxabi

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <20031001033437.GP7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
By author:    viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 04:05:57AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>  
> > > +#define MS_NODIRATIME  2048    /* Do not update directory access times */
> > > +#define MS_BIND                4096
> > > +#define MS_POSIXACL    (1<<16) /* VFS does not apply the umask */
> > 
> > can we clean that up? with shifting, without shifting, with comments and without comments? I suggest to use the linuxdoc comments mandatory for the abi files.
> 
> 
> ... and make it enum, while we are at it.  It's cleaner, it survives cpp
> and it can be handled by gdb et.al. in sane way.
> 
> Unless we really want to support pre-v7 compilers, there is no benefit
> in using #define for such constants.

... except you can use #ifdef to test for obsolete headers.

	-hpa
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