Re: [PATCH V3 1/5] RDMA/core: Transport-independent access flags

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On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 09:23:42AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> > Please add an assert for the values that are allowed for attrs.
> > 
> > It also would be highly useful to add a kerneldoc comment describing
> > the function and the parameters.  Also __bitwise sparse tricks
> > to ensure the right flags are passed wouldn't be a too bad idea.
> > 
> 
> Can you explain the "__bitwise sparse tricks"?  Or point me to an example.  

Grep the kernel tree for __bitwise.  It allows creating a type with
additional type annotations so that sparse will warn when assigning
incorrect values to it.

> > Why not specfiy these as separate nuerical namespace?
> > 
> 
> To avoid having to translate them. 

But they are different values, so you should translate them.

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