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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:26:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops: simplify generic bit finding functions
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> No need for a sentinal if we explicitly catch the no bits/all bits set
> cases, make it clear they are special cases returning size/BITS_PER_LONG.

These things need to be re-done anyway. David already complained that the 
thing inlines to something much much too big.

Let's just make it not be an inline at all.

		Linus