Re: [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap basedimplementation

[Paul Jackson]

Andrew wrote:
> In that case the cpumask code should provide some API function which
> converts a cpumask_t into (and from?) some canonical and documented form. 
> Then you copy what it gave you to userspace.

Exactly.  I said something similar in my earlier reply.
But not the same.  Andrew nailed it.

And the bitmap code should provide that conversion code,
since cpumask is just (soon, I hope ;) a thin layer on
bitmap.

And there might be bitop or byteorder arch specific code
beneath that.

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