more possible aesthetic cleanup -- *lots* of power of 2 stuff

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

  following up on jesper's yeoman efforts to tidy up a lot of the
*malloc calls, once upon a time, i whined enough to get the
<linux/log2.h> header file added so that a lot of painful bit tests
for power of 2 could be abbreviated.

  the most useful test seems to have been:

static inline __attribute__((const))
bool is_power_of_2(unsigned long n)
{
        return (n != 0 && ((n & (n - 1)) == 0));
}

i wrote a short script that looks for various forms of the old power
of 2 tests:

===== start =====
#!/bin/sh

DIR=${1-*}

echo -e "     x & (x - 1):\n"
grep -Ern "([^\(\)]+) ?\& ?\(\1 ?- ?1\)" ${DIR}
echo -e "     x & ((x) - 1):\n"
grep -Ern "([^\(\)]+) ?\& ?\(\(\1\) ?- ?1\)" ${DIR}
echo -e "     (x) & (x - 1):\n"
grep -Ern "\(([^\(\)]+)\) ?\& ?\(\1 ?- ?1\)" ${DIR}
echo -e "     (x) & ((x) - 1):\n"
grep -Ern "\(([^\(\)]+)\) ?\& ?\(\(\1\) ?- ?1\)" ${DIR}
===== end =====

and, unsurprisingly, while i once submitted a fair bit of that
cleanup, there's lots left -- just run the script at the top of the
source tree (give an optional subdir to restrict the search).  there
are even a few places where code is still defining that test for
itself:

drivers/net/bna/bna.h:50:#define BNA_POWER_OF_2(x) (((x) & ((x) - 1)) == 0)
drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00reg.h:187:#define is_power_of_two(x)	( !((x) & ((x)-1)) )

  if anyone wants to run the script on their favourite bit of the
tree, have at it.

rday

p.s.  perhaps tests like this could be added to the checkpatch.pl
script.  just a thought.

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