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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] More useful types in the linux
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Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> wrote:

> > I can resurrect irq_flags_t but there is no procedure for merging 1MB+=
 diffs
> > without spending whole life splitting and emailing maintainers.
> =

> I think the procedure is that you have a script (e.g. coccinelle) to mak=
e such
> patch and Linus applies it himself just before/after rc1.

Can coccinelle manage changing the local variable declaration, especially =
if
someone does:

	unsigned long flags, fred;

where fred is unrelated.

But, on the other hand, it should be possible to compile test very easily =
if
irq_flags_t is a typedef'd struct.

David