From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, davidm@snapgear.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dev@uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bit operations
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:32:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041111123251.653eb082.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29033.1100177349@redhat.com>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > The attached patch provides an out-of-line implementation of find_next_bit()
> > and rearranges linux/bitops.h to avoid a dependency loop between inline
> > functions in there and in asm/bitops.h trying to include one another.
>
> Is there any reason you dropped the part of this patch that rearranged
> linux/bitops.h? asm/bitops.h may need generic_ffs() for implementing
> sched_find_first_bit(), and obviously asm/bitops.h can't include
> linux/bitops.h.
I was doing a reject fixup and restored the thing back in what seemed a
better place. Of course, had it been commented, that wouldn't have
happened. It is commented now.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-11 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-08 14:32 dhowells
2004-11-11 12:49 ` David Howells
2004-11-11 20:32 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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