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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:44:12 -0600
From: Todd Inglett <tinglett@vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: bitops porting question
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Todd Inglett wrote:
>
> Anyway, the gist of the problem is that when sizeof(int) != sizeof(long)
> the operations break down for one reason:  there is no test_bit()
> function.

For some dumb reason I didn't notice that there really *is* a
test_bit().  But not all code uses it :(.  For example, the b_state
flags in the generic block driver interface doesn't use it.

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-todd

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