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

[Jiri Slaby]

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@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> ---
>>
>>  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

thanks,
-- 
Jiri Slaby (jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx)
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
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