On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 10:31 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > > Is having separate bit numbers and masks useful? If so, is it worth > > doing for the others? > > > > I presume it's useful, or at least *used* in the current code, since > that was there already. If deemed useful, it's something we could add > to the other bitmasks.
I don't think it needs to be done now, as long as it follows a clear convention. I'd prefer eg. X86_EFLAGS_IF_BIT == 9, X86_EFLAGS_IF == 512, but _X86_EFLAGS_IF seems to be the current practice. Cheers, Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
