Re: [2.6 patch] Define BITS_PER_BYTE

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 08:03 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> Oh no :( This sounds as uncommon as CHAR_BIT in C.

CHAR_BIT is completely unclear.  BITS_PER_BYTE is self-evident, and
makes it a lot more obvious when you're doing arithmetic that involves
counting bits.

	<b

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