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Subject: Re: significance of using 2kb long byte_rev_table in lib/bitrev.c
From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Soumyadip Das Mahapatra <kernelhacker@visualserver.org>
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 17:53:59 -0700
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On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 18:59 +0200, Soumyadip Das Mahapatra wrote:
> Hi,
>  	i cant understand the significance of using 2kb size of
> bit_rev_table array in lib/bitrev.c

It's used in reversing the bits in a byte value as well, which your
patch breaks (see the bitrev8 users)

Harvey