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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: "Eble, Dan" <DanE@aiinet.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.5 patch] ULL postfixes for tg3.c
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:20:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030624182021.GZ3710@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AD59566A9D83864F871AE2E52503064005068C@aimail.aiinet.priv>

On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 02:00:07PM -0400, Eble, Dan wrote:
> Q: Why not to use something even easier to read (and write), like "~0ULL" or
> better yet "UINT64_MAX" (stdint.h)?

A: This seems to be an excellent idea.

Linus, what's your opinion on adding constants like UINT64_MAX to 
kernel.h and use them where appropriate?

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-24 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-24 18:00 Eble, Dan
2003-06-24 18:20 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-24 17:48 Adrian Bunk
2003-06-24 20:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-06-24 20:32   ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-06-24 20:34   ` Jeff Garzik

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