From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Implement a general log2 facility in the kernel
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:17:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060913161734.GE3564@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060913130300.32022.69743.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:03:00PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
>
> This facility provides three entry points:
>
> log2() Log base 2 of u32
>...
Considering that several arch maintainers have vetoed my patch to revert
the -ffreestanding removal Andi sneaked in with his usual trick to hide
generic patches as "x86_64 patch", such a usage of a libc function name
with a signature different from the one defined in ISO/IEC 9899:1999 is
a namespace violation that mustn't happen.
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-13 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-13 13:02 [PATCH 1/6] FRV: Fix fls() to handle bit 31 being set correctly David Howells
2006-09-13 13:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] FRV: Implement fls64() David Howells
2006-09-13 13:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] FRV: Optimise ffs() David Howells
2006-09-13 13:03 ` [PATCH 4/6] Implement a general log2 facility in the kernel David Howells
2006-09-13 15:57 ` Luck, Tony
2006-09-13 16:50 ` David Howells
2006-09-13 16:17 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-09-13 16:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-09-13 16:38 ` Russell King
2006-09-13 16:56 ` David Howells
2006-09-13 18:38 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-09-13 18:45 ` Russell King
2006-09-13 19:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-09-13 13:03 ` [PATCH 5/6] Alter get_order() so that it can make use of long_log2() on a constant David Howells
2006-09-13 13:03 ` [PATCH 6/6] Alter roundup_pow_of_two() " David Howells
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