Re: [PATCH v2] posix_types.h: make __NFDBITS compatible with glibc definition

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Seems fine to me.  In addition to the s/__NFDBITS/BITS_PER_LONG change,
> I'm guessing you'll want the odd FD_ISSET/CLR/ZERO/etc macros in
> linux/time.h killed as well?

Yes. They don't make sense, since the kernel doesn't even *define*
those underscore versions.

> If you don't get to it before me, I'll try whipping something up either
> later this evening or first thing in the morning.

Being the merge window, I already have spent more time than I should
looking at kernel history of just *why* we do that odd thing. I'll go
back to merging Xen stuff and let you play with this..

               Linus
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