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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: bert.wesarg@googlemail.com, mingo@elte.hu,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, travis@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix calculus of bitmap_scnprintf_len()
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:13:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080428081326.fc62f1ce.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804281414020.2870@localhost.localdomain>

Bert wrote:
> The function bitmap_scnprintf_len() is currently not used

Paul Jackson wrote:
> How about we just remove that function?

WANG Cong wrote:
> I am afraid no. See:
> 
> include/linux/cpumask.h:292:    return bitmap_scnprintf_len(len);

Good point.


Then how about we also remove from cpumask.h:

#define cpumask_scnprintf_len(len) \
                        __cpumask_scnprintf_len((len))
static inline int __cpumask_scnprintf_len(int len)
{
        return bitmap_scnprintf_len(len);
}

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-28 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-27 20:43 [PATCH] Fix calculus of bitmap_scnprintf_len() Bert Wesarg
2008-04-27 21:01 ` Paul Jackson
2008-04-28  6:14   ` WANG Cong
2008-04-28 13:13     ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2008-04-28 17:09       ` Mike Travis
2008-04-28 17:31         ` Bert Wesarg

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