Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:29:12 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations |
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On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 01:30:42PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> irq_flags_t > > New type for use with spin_lock_irqsave() and friends.
Talking about it, why did we ever require this to be a long anyway? I could get away with a single bit for MIPS; the rest of this variable is pure bloat. An abstract datatype could help finally fix this.
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