From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765603AbYETLFW (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 07:05:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754745AbYETLFJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 07:05:09 -0400 Received: from visualserver.org ([84.242.66.126]:40540 "EHLO visualserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751616AbYETLFI (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 07:05:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 13:05:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Soumyadip Das Mahapatra To: Harvey Harrison cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akinobu.mita@gmail.com Subject: Re: significance of using 2kb long byte_rev_table in lib/bitrev.c In-Reply-To: <1211244839.5915.114.camel@brick> Message-ID: References: <1211244839.5915.114.camel@brick> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-visualserver.org-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: DB2E72FB42.BEF01 X-visualserver.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-visualserver.org-MailScanner-From: kernelhacker@visualserver.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 19 May 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote: > 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 Well you can do that modifying the value of k. I commented these in the program. Soumya -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.