On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, David Rientjes wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Then you could follow through with the enum mempolicy thing > > throughtout. Why not use enum mempolicy in struct mempolicy? > > > > Mempolicy flags, as I implemented them in patch 2 in this series, are not > integer constants that are enumerated starting at 0. They are individual > bits that are shifted a pre-defined length and intersected with the > enumerated mode. This allows both the mode and the flags to be stored in > the same object.
Ok. Now are you are making the same point that I did before. Lets leave enum out if we need to do these tricks with the upper bits. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

