Re: [PATCH 1/8] cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr

[Rusty Russell]

On Wednesday 16 July 2008 07:14:30 Mike Travis wrote:
>   * This patch replaces the dangerous lvalue version of cpumask_of_cpu
>     with new cpumask_of_cpu_ptr macros.  These are patterned after the
>     node_to_cpumask_ptr macros.

Hi Mike,

   Should we just put cpumask_of_cpu_map[] in generic code and then have 
cpumask_of_cpu() always return a cpumask_t pointer?  These macros which 
declare things which may be one of two types is a real penalty for code 
readability.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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