Re: [PATCH 4/6] Implement a general log2 facility in the kernel

Adrian Bunk
2006-09-13T16:17:43Z

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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