Re: [PATCH 1/2] irq_flags_t: intro and core annotations

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 01:30:42PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> 			irq_flags_t
> 	
> New type for use with spin_lock_irqsave() and friends.

Talking about it, why did we ever require this to be a long anyway?  I could
get away with a single bit for MIPS; the rest of this variable is pure
bloat.  An abstract datatype could help finally fix this.

  Ralf
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