Re: [PATCH v1 02/14] futex: Extend the FUTEX2 flags

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, Aug 01 2023 at 00:59, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 12:43:24AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Which then gets people to write garbage like:
>
> 	futex_wake(add, 0xFFFF, 1, (union futex_flags){ .flags = FUTEX2_SIZE_U16 | FUTEX2_PRIVATE));
> or
> 	futex_wake(add, 0xFFFF, 1, (union futex_flags){ .size = FUTEX2_SIZE_U16, private = true, ));
>
> You really want that ?

Well, people write garbage no matter what. So just keep the flags and
make the names explicit.

Note to myself: /me shouldn't look at futex patches when tired