From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: Introduce new 10GbE driver for Intel 82598 based
 PCI Express adapters...
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:11:36 -0400
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Kok, Auke wrote:
> but let's stay constructive here:
> 
> ~/git/linux-2.6 $ grep -r 'unsigned int.*:1;' * | wc -l
> 748
> 
> Is anyone going to fix those? If we don't, someone will certainly again 
> submit patches to add more of these bitfields, after all, some very 
> prominent parts of the kernel still use them. Only recently for instance 
> mac80211 merged like 30 of these.... and drivers/net, include etc.. 
> certainly has a lot of these.


There is a lot of crap in the kernel.  Just look at all the grotty SCSI 
or char drivers, for example.  The first task is to avoid adding more 
crap :)

	Jeff