From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:40091 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932610AbWJFUjU (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 16:39:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:39:19 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel [try #4] Message-ID: <20061006203919.GS2563@parisc-linux.org> References: <20061006133414.9972.79007.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: David Howells , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:33:19PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >+ * the massive ternary operator construction > >+ (sizeof(n) <= 4) ? \ > >+ __ilog2_u32(n) : \ > >+ __ilog2_u64(n) \ > > Should not this be: sizeof(n) <= sizeof(u32) Were you planning on porting Linux to a machine with non-8-bit-bytes any time soon? Because there's a lot more to fix than this.