Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:55:01 +1000
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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       rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@muc.de,
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       joe.korty@ccur.com, manfred@colorfullife.com, colpatch@us.ibm.com,
       Simon.Derr@bull.net, miltonm@bga.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpumask 5/10 rewrite cpumask.h - single bitmap based implementation
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> aargh!  It's back!

Its stalking you.

> There's something about this patch which make me break out in hives.  Does
> it *really* need to be that complicated?

If we dont want maximum backwards compatibility we can get rid of the <
sizeof(long) bits.

> iirc, the last time I looked through this I was unable to convince myself
> that it was endianness-correct.  Is it?

Should be, but we could boot it on something 64bit little endian to prove
it.

Anton
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