Re: [PATCH 8/9] define global BIT macro

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Randy Dunlap napsal(a):
> > On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:44:12 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >
> > > define global BIT macro
> > >
> > > move all local BIT defines to the new globally define macro.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  include/linux/bitops.h                      |    1 +
> > >  include/video/sstfb.h                       |    1 -
> > >  include/video/tdfx.h                        |    2 --
> > >  net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h                  |    2 --
> > >  18 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h
> > > index 3255b06..a57b81f 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/bitops.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
> > > @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> > >  #include <asm/types.h>
> > >  
> > >  #ifdef	__KERNEL__
> > > +#define BIT(nr)			(1UL << (nr))
> > >  #define BIT_MASK(nr)		(1UL << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG))
> > >  #define BIT_WORD(nr)		((nr) / BITS_PER_LONG)
> > >  #define BITS_TO_TYPE(nr, t)	(((nr)+(t)-1)/(t))
> >
> > So users of the BIT() macro in include/linux/input.h can be
> > changed to use the global BIT_MASK() macro...
> > and the former can be removed.
>
> I'm afraid I don't understand you. Maybe, you are writing about changes done in
> patch no. 7 [1], which didn't go through to the lkml?
>
> [1]
> http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/07-get-rid-of-input-bit-duplicate-defines.patch

Exactly.  Thanks.

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~Randy
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