linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] Implement a general log2 facility in the kernel

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Message-ID: <20060913161734.GE3564@stusta.de>
Date:	Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:17:34 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Implement a general log2 facility in the kernel

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:03:00PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> 
> This facility provides three entry points:
> 
> 	log2()		Log base 2 of u32
>...

Considering that several arch maintainers have vetoed my patch to revert 
the -ffreestanding removal Andi sneaked in with his usual trick to hide 
generic patches as "x86_64 patch", such a usage of a libc function name 
with a signature different from the one defined in ISO/IEC 9899:1999 is 
a namespace violation that mustn't happen.

cu
Adrian

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