From: Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: s.biggs@softier.com, Linux-Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in kernel code?
Date: 28 Aug 2002 06:10:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1030507839.1547.36.camel@ldb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020827.205830.72711261.davem@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 05:58, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org>
> Date: 28 Aug 2002 05:57:50 +0200
>
> On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 05:39, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Realistically possible with any known configuration?
>
> How about replacing the loop with ffs/__ffs that would be more
> elegant, shorter and avoid any problem or doubt?
>
> This is getting rediculious. You can pursue this further
> if you want, but I think we've wasted enough time with
> this non-bug.
>
> Who is getting bootup failures due to this problem?
> Answer: nobody
I'm not saying that it's serious bug, just that using __ffs is more
appropriate than reimplementing it incorrectly and inefficiently.
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[not found] ` <20020827.172304.22017977.davem@redhat.com>
2002-08-28 0:32 ` Bug in kernel code? Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 0:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 0:40 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 0:42 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 1:09 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 1:09 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 1:24 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 1:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 2:42 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 3:39 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 3:57 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-28 3:58 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 4:10 ` Luca Barbieri [this message]
2002-08-28 4:07 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 4:29 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-28 4:29 ` Stephen Biggs
2002-08-28 4:26 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 21:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-28 2:49 ` Re[2]: " Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 0:54 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 0:25 Stephen C. Biggs
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