Re: Synchronizing Bit operations V2

[Christoph Lameter]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:

> I have to agree with Hans and I'd much prefer making the mode part of
> the operation's
> name and not a parameter.  Besides being The Right Thing, it saves a
> lot of typing.

IMHO It reduces the flexibility of the scheme and makes it not extendable. 
Leads to a large quantity of macros that are difficult to manage. 

Also some higher level functions may want to have the mode passed to them 
as parameters. See f.e. include/linux/buffer_head.h. Without the 
parameters you will have to maintain farms of definitions for all cases.



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