[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] More useful types in the linux kernel

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Fri Jul 22 11:05:46 UTC 2016


Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz> wrote:

> > I can resurrect irq_flags_t but there is no procedure for merging 1MB+ diffs
> > without spending whole life splitting and emailing maintainers.
> 
> I think the procedure is that you have a script (e.g. coccinelle) to make such
> patch and Linus applies it himself just before/after rc1.

Can coccinelle manage changing the local variable declaration, especially if
someone does:

	unsigned long flags, fred;

where fred is unrelated.

But, on the other hand, it should be possible to compile test very easily if
irq_flags_t is a typedef'd struct.

David


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