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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] size-in-bytes
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:38:39 +0100
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On February 19, 2002 12:29 am, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> >> This is ugly, one finds a lot of shifting left and right, as in
> >>      limit = (size << BLOCK_SIZE_BITS) >> sector_bits;
> 
> > We want to stay with the shift counts.
> 
> You misunderstand.
> I meant what I said in a very literal way, not as some kind
> of colloquial expression.
> And "left and right" has been replaced by "right".

Right, sorry.

-- 
Daniel
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