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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Veeraiyan, Ayyappan" <ayyappan.veeraiyan@intel.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, arjan@linux.intel.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: Introduce new 10GbE driver for Intel 82598 based PCI	Express adapters...
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:08:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46897756.1000005@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46897611.9020207@intel.com>

Kok, Auke wrote:
> I suppose I can fix those, but I really don't understand what all the 
> fuzz is about here. We're only conserving memory and staying far away 
> from the real risks of bitmasks, so forgive me if I don't grasp the 
> problem.

Be it machine ints or bitfields, you're not conserving memory.  Think 
about struct padding.

As to the overall question, I already posted a long list of problems 
with bitfields.  Shall I repeat?

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-02 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-12 23:44 [ANNOUNCE] new driver ixgbe for Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters Ayyappan.Veeraiyan
2007-06-12 23:44 ` [PATCH] ixgbe: Introduce new 10GbE driver for Intel 82598 based " Ayyappan Veeraiyan
2007-07-02 12:52   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-02 14:05     ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-02 14:25       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-02 14:27         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-02 14:41           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-02 14:41             ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-02 15:26             ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-02 15:32               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-02 15:52                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-02 16:09                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-02 15:54                 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-06  8:46                   ` Ingo Oeser
2007-07-02 14:31         ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-02 19:00     ` Veeraiyan, Ayyappan
2007-07-02 19:04       ` Ayyappan Veeraiyan
2007-07-02 20:16       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-02 21:09       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-02 21:42         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-02 22:02           ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-02 22:08             ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-07-02 22:10             ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-02 22:16               ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-02 23:57                 ` Kok, Auke
2007-07-03  0:11                   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-03  0:16                   ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2007-07-03 13:19                     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-03 18:24                       ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2007-07-05 23:29                         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-03  0:08           ` Veeraiyan, Ayyappan
2007-07-03 22:01             ` Ayyappan Veeraiyan
2007-07-02 22:56         ` Veeraiyan, Ayyappan
2007-07-03 12:53       ` Neil Horman
2007-07-05 12:37         ` Neil Horman
2007-07-09 14:21           ` Veeraiyan, Ayyappan
2007-07-10  0:57             ` Neil Horman
2007-06-13 23:05 ` [ANNOUNCE] new driver ixgbe for Intel(R) 10GbE " Francois Romieu
2007-06-13 23:18   ` Kok, Auke
2007-06-14  0:06   ` Ayyappan Veeraiyan
2007-06-14 20:36     ` Francois Romieu

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