Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:02:13 -0700 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mask ADT: new mask.h file [2/22] |
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Rusty wrote: > Agreed. That's a big benefit of cutting it out altogether.
And if it wasn't that this would result in requiring every call to specify the number of bits, resulting in one more chance for a stupid error, and one less for type checking, I'd vote to remove cpumask_t/nodemask_t, as I understand you would prefer.
One should resist infrastructure if one can nuke a layer entirely.
But half-baked layers introduce one more form of difficult to remember inconsistency.
Hmmm ...
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