Re: [PATCH 00/51] Improve static type checking for request flags

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On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 07:05:27AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Bart,
> 
> I generally like this.  Two thoughs:
> 
>  - I suspect most places that currently pass a enum req_op might really
>    want a blk_opf_t for future extensibility, exceptions are very 
>    low-level helpers like req_op() and bio_op() where the enum is
>    very nice to force switch statements to handle all ops or have
>    a default statements
>  - a lot of the flags printinting is a mess, and introduce the code
>    smell of __force casts.  It migh make sense to introduce a new
>    %psomething format specifier first to print a blk_opf_t using
>    printk/vsprintf/etc and switch everyone to that first instead of
>    hand crafted printing.

Oh, and a third:  there is still various places passing the op
separately from the flags and/or using bio_set_op_attrs.  This
would be a good time to clean the rest of those up (I already did
a lot of that gradually).



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