Re: Bug in kernel code?

From: Luca Barbieri (ldb@ldb.ods.org)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 23:10:39 EST

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 05:58, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org>
> Date: 28 Aug 2002 05:57:50 +0200
>
> On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 05:39, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Realistically possible with any known configuration?
>
> How about replacing the loop with ffs/__ffs that would be more
> elegant, shorter and avoid any problem or doubt?
>
> This is getting rediculious. You can pursue this further
> if you want, but I think we've wasted enough time with
> this non-bug.
>
> Who is getting bootup failures due to this problem?
> Answer: nobody
I'm not saying that it's serious bug, just that using __ffs is more
appropriate than reimplementing it incorrectly and inefficiently.


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