Re: [PATCH] iomap: Fix conflicting values of iomap flags

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 10:04:14PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> Just my opinion - and others will prob disagree - but I think that the 
> reason this was missed (my fault, though) was because we have separate 
> grouping of flags within the same struct member. Maybe having separate 
> flags altogether would help avoid this.

Yes.  But going down to less than 16 bit fields also has downsides, as
does growing the struture.