Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 22 2002 - 08:46:26 EST


On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:43:50PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> i'm not so sure about flags_t. 'unsigned long' worked pretty well so far,
> and i do not see the need for a more complex (or more opaque) irqflags
> type.

A feature request then. Type checking. Too many people try to stuff
the value into an int or signed long.

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