On 02/01/2012 02:09 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
We have a lot of code, there's still a lot of situations left where bitfields are just really convenient.
Or even just s/convenient/ingrained habit/ As much as I try to avoid bitfields, engineers writing vendor drivers love to lay out their hardware structures using bitfields, leading to such crapola as
#ifdef little endian a bunch of bitfields, LE arrangement #else bitfields, now in BE arrangement #endif This crops up again and again in drivers :/ Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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