On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 01:25 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > ++#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4,3,0) > > + E->priv_flags |= IFF_NO_QUEUE; > > ++#else > > ++E->tx_queue_len = 0; > > ++#endif > > Interesting so although priv_flags may be a member name prevalent in > *many* data structures the SmPL rule here is very specific about the > use of IFF_NO_QUEUE as a flag, and since we know that is unique to one > use case we take the liberty over using expression here. Replying just > to annotate this practice and Cc Julia on her thoughts. > Yeah I thought about this for a while - it doesn't even cover all cases (there might be drivers that don't use |=, for example). However, for now this seemed sufficient since very few places in the code actually use this. That said, there are cases where E really needs to be an expression since it's not just "dev->..." but something like "foo->dev->...". johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in
