netdev - Re: [PATCH] mISDN: improve bitops usage

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:11:22 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akinobu.mita@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, isdn@...ux-pingi.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mISDN: improve bitops usage

From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:27:45 +0900

> This improves bitops usages in several points:
> 
> - Convert u64 to a proper bitmap declaration.  This enables to remove
>   superfluous typecasting from 'u64' to 'unsigned long *'.
> 
> - Convert superfluous atomic bitops to non atomic bitops.  The bitmap
>   is allocated on the stack and it is not accessed by any other threads,
>   so using atomic bitops is not necessary.
> 
> - Use find_next_zero_bit and find_next_zero_bit instead of calling
>   test_bit() for each bit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.
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