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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 03/18] define BYTES_PER_WORD
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:12:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080608171235.5e1bba29.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080606164455.GD13695@sgi.com>

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:44:55 -0500 Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> wrote:

> Add a BYTES_PER_WORD #define.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
> 
> ---
> 
>  drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp.h |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp.h	2008-05-30 13:59:29.580809165 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xp.h	2008-05-30 14:00:00.200614111 -0500
> @@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
>  #include <asm/sn/types.h>
>  #include <asm/sn/bte.h>
>  
> +/* >>> Add this #define to some linux header file some day. */

The patches fill the code with this ">>>" string - which can cause
false positives when people are searching for git rejects.  Although I
(and I suspect most other people) search for "<<<<<<<".

> +#define BYTES_PER_WORD	sizeof(void *)

Dunno if this is a desirable thing to have, really.  A "word" is a
somewhat ill-defined thing.  The definition you have here is always
equal to BYTES_PER_LONG.  If BYTES_PER_LONG is inappropriate then
BYTES_PER_POINTER would be clearer.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-09  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-06 16:40 [Patch 00/18] continued prepartion of XPC/XPNET to support SGI UV Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:42 ` [Patch 01/18] define is_shub() and is_uv() macros Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:43 ` [Patch 02/18] define xpSalError reason code Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:44 ` [Patch 03/18] define BYTES_PER_WORD Dean Nelson
2008-06-09  0:12   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-06-06 16:46 ` [Patch 04/18] support runtime selection of xp_max_npartitions Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:47 ` [Patch 05/18] create a common xp_remote_memcpy() function Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:48 ` [Patch 06/18] prepare xpc_rsvd_page to work on either sn2 or uv hardware Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:49 ` [Patch 07/18] isolate xpc_vars_part structure to sn2 only Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:51 ` [Patch 08/18] isolate xpc_vars " Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:52 ` [Patch 09/18] base xpc_rsvd_page's timestamp on jiffies Dean Nelson
2008-06-09  0:15   ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-06 16:53 ` [Patch 10/18] move xpc_allocate() into xpc_send()/xpc_send_notify() Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:54 ` [Patch 11/18] isolate activate IRQ's hardware specific components Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:55 ` [Patch 12/18] isolate additional sn2 specific code Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:56 ` [Patch 13/18] separate chctl_flags from XPC's notify IRQ Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:58 ` [Patch 14/18] replace AMO_t typedef by struct amo Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 16:59 ` [Patch 15/18] isolate allocation of XPC's msgqueues to sn2 only Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 17:00 ` [Patch 16/18] enable XPNET to handle more than 64 partitions Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 17:02 ` [Patch 17/18] isolate remote copy buffer to sn2 only Dean Nelson
2008-06-06 17:03 ` [Patch 18/18] add _sn2 suffix to a few variables Dean Nelson

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