Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:22:10 +1000 | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: No more bits in vm_area_struct's vm_flags. |
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Hi.
Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > unsigned long long is certainly the natural choice: that way leaves > freedom for people to add more flags in future without worrying about > which flags variable to put them into. I'd better explain some of my > objections to Nigel's patch in a reply to him rather than here.
I'd prefer long long too if it's feasible. I'm just not an expert on the issues, and so went in the direction I was pushed :) It looks a lot cleaner and simpler to me, too, to keep everything in one variable.
Regards,
Nigel
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