Re: [PATCH 8/9] define global BIT macro

Randy Dunlap
2007-08-18T16:42:57Z

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:44:12 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Slaby wrote:

> define global BIT macro
>
> move all local BIT defines to the new globally define macro.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
>
> ---
>
> include/linux/bitops.h | 1 +
> include/video/sstfb.h | 1 -
> include/video/tdfx.h | 2 --
> net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h | 2 --
> 18 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h
> index 3255b06..a57b81f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/bitops.h
> +++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
> #include <asm/types.h>
>
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> +#define BIT(nr) (1UL << (nr))
> #define BIT_MASK(nr) (1UL << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG))
> #define BIT_WORD(nr) ((nr) / BITS_PER_LONG)
> #define BITS_TO_TYPE(nr, t) (((nr)+(t)-1)/(t))

So users of the BIT() macro in include/linux/input.h can be
changed to use the global BIT_MASK() macro...
and the former can be removed.

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~Randy
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