Re: kern/38956

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR kern/38956; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>
Cc: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>, 
gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
        kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
        netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, martin%duskware.de@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/38956
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:23:32 -0400

 On Jun 23, 11:11am, thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/38956
 
 | On Jun 23, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 | 
 | > I agree. Portable bitfields though, not 'unsigned long int' ones.
 | > Also if I have to use BIG and LITTLE endian ifdefs to deal with
 | > the order that the bitfields are allocated, I'd rather use macros
 | > and masks.  The code is cleaner that way.
 | 
 | Before you go changing it, talk to Matt about why it is that way.
 
 I discussed this with Matt and I am not touching it. I offered to fix
 it and he said he would do it himself.
 
 christos