Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations

[Al Viro]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 03:55:46AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> * irq_flags_t is marked with __bitwise__ which means sparse(1) will warn
>   developer when he accidently uses wrong type or totally wrong variable.
> * irq_flags_t allows conversion to struct instead of typedef without flag day.
>   This will give compile-time breakage of buggy users later.
> * irq_flags_t allows arch maintainers to eventually switch to something
>   smaller than "unsigned long" if they want to.

> P.S.: Anyone checking for differences in sparse logs -- don't panic,
> 	just remove __bitwise__ .

Umm...  Could you make that conditional on something, so that it could
be done with e.g. -D__CHECK_IRQFLAGS__?  We could make that unconditional
closer to the end of conversion.
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