Re: [PATCH] fs: define inode flags using bit numbers

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:59:47PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 08:09:52PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > Define the VFS inode flags using bit numbers instead of hardcoding
> > powers of 2, which has become unwieldy now that we're up to 65536.
> 
> If you're going to change these, why not use the BIT() macro?
> 

Either way would be fine with me, but I've seen people complain about BIT()
before and say they prefer just (1 << n).

- Eric



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