linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c.

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Date:	Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:45:14 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c.

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 20:20:28 -0500 (EST) Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> 
>   Delete the definition of the unused FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com>
> 
> ---
> 
>   this macro seems safely deletable, given that there is no other
> reference to that macro anywhere in the entire source tree and,
> besides, one should use find_first_bit() anyway.
> 
>   it's not clear who the official maintainer is for this subsystem
> these days.

I believe that it should go to (from MAINTAINERS):

PCMCIA SUBSYSTEM
P:	Linux PCMCIA Team
L:	linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org
L:	http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
T:	git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6.git
S:	Maintained

> diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c
> index 2d7effe..a1bd763 100644
> --- a/drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cardbus.c
> @@ -40,8 +40,6 @@
> 
>  /*====================================================================*/
> 
> -#define FIND_FIRST_BIT(n)	((n) - ((n) & ((n)-1)))
> -
>  /* Offsets in the Expansion ROM Image Header */
>  #define ROM_SIGNATURE		0x0000	/* 2 bytes */
>  #define ROM_DATA_PTR		0x0018	/* 2 bytes */
> -

---
~Randy
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