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

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

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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