Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:34:14 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>, eranian@google.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
       paulus@samba.org, davem@davemloft.net, robert.richter@amd.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] bitops: Provide compile time HWEIGHT{8,16,32,64}
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 11:32 +0100, John Kacur wrote:
> > 
> > I like it. Maybe provide a comment that this provides the Hamming weight, 
> > it took me a second to realize what this was.
> 
> its called _H_weight for crying out loud.

I always forget such abbreviations :-/

I think when a single kernel hacker requests a clarifying comment that's 
reason enough to add it. After all he broke through a barrier of laziness to 
write that email ;-)

	Ingo
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