Re: [PATCH] s390 update (4/9): common i/o layer update.

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 15:05:58 EST


On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 05:27:23PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
>
> > > + typeof (chsc_area_ssd.response_block)
> > > + *ssd_res = &chsc_area_ssd.response_block;
> >
> > Yikes! Please use the actual type here instead of typeof()
> Trouble is that response_block is an anonymous structure. There
> is not type...

Then add one.

> > What about using GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_DMA instead? This makes it
> > more clear that it's just a qualifier.
> Hmm, GFP_DMA and __GFP_DMA are equivalent. I don't quite see your
> point here.

The __GFP flags are modifiers, the GFP_ flags usually can be used standalone -
with the exception of GFP_DMA which shouldn't exist.

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