Re: [PATCH 10/19] workqueue: update cwq alignement and make one more flag bit available

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Oct 01 2009 - 12:22:29 EST


Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The quoted code is a standard kernel technique for creating typed constants
> that are visible to the C compiler (rather than CPP) and debugger.
>
> It is found in a great many Linux kernel drivers at this point, and is
> definitely not abuse, IMO.

Just because it's common practice, and just because you like it, doesn't make
it not abuse. But that's a side issue, and fairly irrelevant to the actual
implementation.

David
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