Re: [PATCH] x86: fix variable_test_bit()asmconstraints

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>]

On 14/3/08 14:11, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:

>> Regarding your other reply: I would actually be happy to change the bitops
>> to work with longs only. I suspect, and would need to have demonstrated
>> otherwise, that supporting bitops on arbitrary-width fields down to the
>> instruction level is not really worthwhile. Either way, I accept that what
>> we do now is dubious at best.
> 
> Hmm, change it to work with longs only but also make it work without
> casts? You mean then change all places where bitops are applied to
> exclusively use 'unsigned long' as the fundamental type? I didn't look
> at the number of places that would require changing, but I'm afraid it'd
> be quite a few (and it might get you further away from Linux originals
> in some cases).

Yes, I wouldn't have expected that too be too hard, really. Are there lots
of places with arrays of 32-bit integers? I doubt 16-bit or 8-bit fields are
at all common.

 -- Keir