Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the luto-misc tree

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Jul 15 2016 - 11:29:55 EST


On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:24:36PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Seems ok, but I'll reinstate this:
>
> #if BITS_PER_LONG != __BITS_PER_LONG
> #error Inconsistent word size. Check asm/bitsperlong.h
> #endif

Confuses me; why do we have two?

Why not then do:

#define BITS_PER_LONG __BITS_PER_LONG

and be done with it?