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SubjectRe: [KJ][RFC][PATCH] BIT macro cleanup
Milind Arun Choudhary wrote:
> why bitops.h? coz BIT qualifies for a "bitop"
> & bitops.h is inclued by kernel.h, hence accessible from every part
> of the tree without mucb efforts
>
I don't think there is anyone who objects to this
> c>but it is not sutaible for those who want to go beyond this limit,
> as they will not be warned
>
And this is the reason for this overly long thread :)
> So all we need is people to be carefull before passing anything to BIT
>
This is the difficult thing to do
> so now i think it should be ok to have
>
> #define BIT(nr) (1UL << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG))
> #define LLBIT(nr) (1ULL << (nr))
>
>
> thoughts
>
Since you guys seems in agreement about the silenced compiler-warnings,
then I will rest my case.

Richard Knutsson

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