Re: [tip:perf/core] bitops: Provide compile time HWEIGHT{8,16,32,64}

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> *sigh* and here I though it being placed right next to hweight_long()
> which uses the arch hweightN() would be clue enough.

No. People who add new uses may be copying old uses, without looking at 
the definition.

Also, people who _change_ uses may be changing a value that used to be a 
constant into a variable when something is made more dynamic. At which 
point it really makes sense to have a function that requires a constant to 
_check_ that it gets a constant.

> If people are so clueless, who says they'll read a comment.. but sure I
> guess I can add one.

The comment nobody cares about. But surprisingly crap code generation? 
That's bad.

> Subject: bitops: Dummyify the compile-time hweight versions
> 
> Because it seems allowed to not think and write kernel code.

I would suggest you look in the mirror at some point.

		Linus