[2.6 patch] Define BITS_PER_BYTE

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 03:45:34AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> +/*
> + * More than this number of fds: we use a separately allocated fd_set
> + */
> +#define EMBEDDED_FD_SET_SIZE	(8 * sizeof(struct embedded_fd_set))
> +
>...

What about applying and using the patch below?

cu
Adrian


<--  snip  -->


This can make some arithmetic expressions clearer.


Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>

--- a/include/linux/types.h	Wed Dec 28 14:19:42 2005 -0800
+++ b/include/linux/types.h	Wed Dec 28 14:19:42 2005 -0800
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 	(((bits)+BITS_PER_LONG-1)/BITS_PER_LONG)
 #define DECLARE_BITMAP(name,bits) \
 	unsigned long name[BITS_TO_LONGS(bits)]
+
+#define BITS_PER_BYTE 8
 #endif
 
 #include <linux/posix_types.h>
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