[PATCH v4 1/5] fs, block: refactor enum rw_hint

[Bart Van Assche]

On 8/26/24 10:06 AM, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> Change i_write_hint (in inode), bi_write_hint (in bio) and write_hint
> (in request) to use u8 data-type rather than this enum.

That sounds fishy to me. Why to increase the size of this enum? Why to
reduce the ability of the compiler to perform type checking? I think
this needs to be motivated clearly in the patch description.

Bart.