Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] fs, block: refactor enum rw_hint

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On 8/26/24 10:06 AM, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
Change i_write_hint (in inode), bi_write_hint (in bio) and write_hint
(in request) to use u8 data-type rather than this enum.

That sounds fishy to me. Why to increase the size of this enum? Why to
reduce the ability of the compiler to perform type checking? I think
this needs to be motivated clearly in the patch description.

Bart.




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