linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] linux/bitmap.h: relax comment on compile-time constant nbits

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Date:   Tue, 4 Sep 2018 13:45:26 +0200
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] linux/bitmap.h: relax comment on compile-time
 constant nbits

On 2018-09-04 13:30, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 02:08:59PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 03:16:21PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
>>> It's not clear what's so horrible about emitting a function call to
>>> handle a run-time sized bitmap. Moreover, gcc also emits a function call
>>> for a compile-time-constant-but-huge nbits, so the comment isn't even
>>> accurate.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
>>
>> Hi Rasmus,
>>
>> Maybe too late, but 
>>
>> Acked-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
> 
> Actually not, I don't see this in linux-next.
> 
> Rasmus, do you know what happened to the series? Is it got stuck by unknown reasons?

I just assumed Andrew was busy doing more important things. He usually
gets around to these kinds of minor cleanups, eventually.

Rasmus