On Thursday 31 July 2008 22:29, David Miller wrote: > From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:37:57 +0200 > > > Looks like enough to me. (Probably it could even share space with > > the state.) > > So I made some progress on this, three things: > > 1) I remember why I choose a to use a bit in my design, it's so that > it does not increase the costs of the checks in the fast paths. > test_bit(X) && test_bit(Y) can be combined into a single test by > the compiler. Except for the braindead volatile that gets stuck on the bitops pointer. Last time I complained about this, a lot of noise was made and I think Linus wanted it to stay around so we could pass volatile pointers to bitops & co without warnings. I say we should just remove the volatile and kill any callers that might warn... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
