Re: [PATCH net-next v6 01/23] asm: simd context helper API

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:49 AM Ard Biesheuvel
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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+typedef enum {
+       HAVE_NO_SIMD = 1 << 0,
+       HAVE_FULL_SIMD = 1 << 1,
+       HAVE_SIMD_IN_USE = 1 << 31
+} simd_context_t;
+

Oh, and another thing (and I'm surprised checkpatch.pl didn't complain
about it): the use of typedef in new code is strongly discouraged.
This policy predates my involvement, so perhaps Joe can elaborate on
the rationale?

In case it matters, the motivation for making this a typedef is I
could imagine this at some point turning into a more complicated
struct on certain platforms and that would make refactoring easier. I
could just make it `struct simd_context` now with 1 member though...