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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	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 17:56:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4143.1158166615@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060913163806.GA15563@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> Therefore, re-using "log2()" is about as bad as re-using the "strcmp()"
> name to implement a function which copies strings.

I should probably use ilog2() then which would at least be consistent with the
powerpc arch.

> t.c:2: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'log2'

Which, of course, I didn't see because I didn't define it as a function,
merely as a macro.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-13 16:58 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
2006-09-13 16:31     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-09-13 16:38       ` Russell King
2006-09-13 16:56         ` David Howells [this message]
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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