From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Gospodarek <gospo@broadcom.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops: Introduce BITS_PER_TYPE
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 14:57:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180706145753.b186b0b22d9c55744b77f385@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180706094458.14116-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 10:44:58 +0100 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> net_dim.h has a rather useful extension to BITS_PER_BYTE to compute the
> number of bits in a type (BITS_PER_BYTE * sizeof(T)), so promote the
> macro to bitops.h, alongside BITS_PER_BYTE, for wider usage.
A bit of grepping shows that there's quite a lot of code which does
sizeof(blah)*BITS_PER_BYTE. Fun newbie project.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-06 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-06 9:44 Chris Wilson
2018-07-06 10:03 ` Jani Nikula
2018-07-06 17:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-07-06 17:51 ` Chris Wilson
2018-07-06 17:55 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-07-06 18:00 ` Chris Wilson
2018-07-06 18:38 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-07-06 21:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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