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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	arjan@linux.intel.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] NET: Implement a standard ndev_printk family
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:24:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181600685.6020.20.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466DC657.2030401@intel.com>

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 15:01 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> > msg_enable is more frequently defined in drivers/net as u32 not int.
> yes, we're only using the bottom 15 bits anyway, but the net_device struct 
> consistently uses 'int' style members, leaving it up to the compiler to pick an 
> appropriate size for each arch. That was the reason I chose int here.

I guess I'm from a "don't be larger than necessary" school.

As it's a bitfield and not a boolean, it should be unsigned.
Perhaps it could also be a good time to rename it to something
like netif_enabled_msgs?


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-11 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-11 21:37 [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] NET: Implement a standard ndev_printk family Auke Kok
2007-06-11 21:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] [RFC] NET: Convert several drivers to ndev_printk Auke Kok
2007-06-11 21:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] NET: Implement a standard ndev_printk family Kok, Auke
2007-06-11 21:54 ` Joe Perches
2007-06-11 22:01   ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-11 22:24     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2007-06-11 22:00 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-11 22:04   ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-11 22:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-11 22:43   ` Kok, Auke
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-08 22:00 Auke Kok
2007-06-08 23:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-08 23:42   ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-09  0:10     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-09  3:06       ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-09  3:18       ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-11 17:30       ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-11 17:50         ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-11 18:28           ` Joe Perches
2007-06-11 20:28             ` Kok, Auke

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