[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed Feb 15 08:50:16 PST 2006


Quoting r. Badari Pulavarty <pbadari at us.ibm.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] add asm-generic/mman.h
> 
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 17:16 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > How does the following look (against gc3-git)?
> 
> I tried to do the same earlier (while doing MADV_REMOVE) and got
> ugly (I was trying to completely get rid of asm-specific ones), 
> so I gave up.
> 
> Anyway,
> 
> 
> > Index: linux-2.6.16-rc3/include/asm-generic/mman.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
> > +++ linux-2.6.16-rc3/include/asm-generic/mman.h	2006-02-15 19:59:41.000000000 +0200
> ..
> > +#define MS_ASYNC	1		/* sync memory asynchronously */
> > +#define MS_SYNC		2		/* synchronous memory sync */
> > +#define MS_INVALIDATE	4		/* invalidate the caches */
> 
> Shouldn't this be ?
> 
> +#define MS_ASYNC	1		/* sync memory asynchronously */
> +#define MS_INVALIDATE	2		/* invalidate the caches */
> +#define MS_SYNC	4		/* synchronous memory sync */
> 
> Thanks,
> Badari
> 

Note that this only looks misaligned in the patch. When you apply, +
disappears and numbers get aligned.
Other stuff in asm-xx/mman.h is aligned by tabs and not by spaces,
so why should these options be aligned by spaces?

-- 
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies



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