From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:17:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135912649.7790.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512291901.jBTJ1rOm017519@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:01 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > - Renamed _BITS_PER_BYTE to BITS_PER_BYTE, and moved it into
> > linux/types.h
> Haven't come across anything with this not 8 for a /long/ time now, and no
> Linux on that in sight.
The point isn't that it might change, but that it makes code clearer to
use BITS_PER_BYTE in arithmetic than to have the magic number 8
sprinkled around mysteriously.
<b
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-30 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-29 0:31 [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 1 of 20] Introduce __memcpy_toio32 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 2 of 20] memcpy32 for x86_64 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 3 of 20] Add memcpy_toio32 to each arch Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 4 of 20] Define BITS_PER_BYTE Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 5 of 20] ipath - driver core header files Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 8:18 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-29 14:15 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 6 of 20] ipath - driver debugging headers Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 8:22 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 7 of 20] ipath - MMIO copy routines Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 1 of 4 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30 8:39 ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:47 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31 0:12 ` Greg KH
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 9 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 2 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 10 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 3 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-12-30 23:50 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31 8:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 11 of 20] ipath - core driver, part 4 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 2:19 ` [openib-general] " Roland Dreier
2005-12-29 14:21 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30 8:12 ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:17 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31 0:08 ` Greg KH
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 12 of 20] ipath - misc driver support code Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-30 8:25 ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:10 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31 0:13 ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 18:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 13 of 20] ipath - routines used by upper layer driver code Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 14 of 20] ipath - infiniband verbs header Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 8:21 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-29 14:22 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 15 of 20] ipath - infiniband verbs support, part 1 of 3 Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 16 of 20] path - infiniband verbs support, part 2 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 17 of 20] ipath - infiniband verbs support, part 3 " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 19:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-12-30 3:19 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 18 of 20] ipath - infiniband management datagram support Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 19 of 20] ipath - kbuild infrastructure Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 0:31 ` [PATCH 20 of 20] ipath - integrate driver into infiniband " Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-29 19:01 ` [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver Horst von Brand
2005-12-29 19:26 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-31 5:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-02 16:05 ` Horst von Brand
2006-01-02 16:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-30 3:17 ` Bryan O'Sullivan [this message]
2005-12-30 8:00 ` Greg KH
2005-12-30 23:11 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2005-12-31 0:10 ` Greg KH
2005-12-31 1:40 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-02 20:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-02 22:22 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-04 21:26 ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-05 15:28 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-03 17:27 ` Greg KH
2006-01-03 20:54 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-03 20:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-03 21:24 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-03 21:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-04 3:33 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-04 21:28 ` [openib-general] " Roland Dreier
2006-01-05 15:31 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
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