Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver
From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
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Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:17:29 -0800
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On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:01 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:

> >   - Renamed _BITS_PER_BYTE to BITS_PER_BYTE, and moved it into
> >     linux/types.h

> Haven't come across anything with this not 8 for a /long/ time now, and no
> Linux on that in sight.

The point isn't that it might change, but that it makes code clearer to
use BITS_PER_BYTE in arithmetic than to have the magic number 8
sprinkled around mysteriously.

	<b

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