Joe Damato wrote: > Static inline getters/setters have been provided to encourage consumers not to touch the internals of 32bit x86 descriptors directly. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Damato <ice799@xxxxxxxxx> Okay, what is the motivation for this? This is a serious question. The x86 descriptors are so complex that it's not clear to me that this restriction makes the code any more clear. Especially not with things like: - cpu->arch.gdt[i].b |= 0x00000100; + desc_set_hi(tmp, desc_get_hi(tmp) | 0x00000100); This isn't an improvement. If you're doing to so something like this, you need to actually implement the *intent* here. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
