Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup, 2.5.27-A2

[Marcin Dalecki]

Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 03:43:50PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>>i'm not so sure about flags_t. 'unsigned long' worked pretty well so far,
>>and i do not see the need for a more complex (or more opaque) irqflags
>>type.
> 
> 
> A feature request then.  Type checking.  Too many people try to stuff
> the value into an int or signed long.

Amen.