From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] sfc: Replace enum efx_fc_type with a 'bitwise' type Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 22:01:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4DD3285D.6010506@garzik.org> References: <1305658121.2848.29.camel@bwh-desktop> <20110517.152651.1785846817320651943.davem@davemloft.net> <1305666379.2848.45.camel@bwh-desktop> <20110517.171412.1017451005914294196.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:36876 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932434Ab1ERCBD (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2011 22:01:03 -0400 Received: by yxs7 with SMTP id 7so390806yxs.19 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 19:01:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110517.171412.1017451005914294196.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/17/2011 05:14 PM, David Miller wrote: > Accept that the compiler currently doesn't want to allow enums to be > used as bit-masks, don't paper around it. This practice is all over the kernel. It's a bit silly to make such a big deal, because of that. Jeff