On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 13:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Oh, I didn't realize, I only did this because sparse started spewing out
lots of:
include/linux/bitops.h:166:32: warning: shift too big (65536) for type unsigned long
due to shift by size there, and again on line 202...I just wanted something
that sparse wouldn't warn about and was a little easier to understand to boot.
Cheers,
Harvey
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