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Subject: Re: Bug in kernel code?
From: Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 05:58, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org>
>    Date: 28 Aug 2002 05:57:50 +0200
> 
>    On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 05:39, David S. Miller wrote:
>    > Realistically possible with any known configuration?
> 
>    How about replacing the loop with ffs/__ffs that would be more
>    elegant, shorter and avoid any problem or doubt?
>    
> This is getting rediculious.  You can pursue this further
> if you want, but I think we've wasted enough time with
> this non-bug.
> 
> Who is getting bootup failures due to this problem?
> Answer: nobody
I'm not saying that it's serious bug, just that using __ffs is more
appropriate than reimplementing it incorrectly and inefficiently.


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