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authorBryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>2006-02-01 03:05:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-02-01 08:53:13 -0800
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[PATCH] Define BITS_PER_BYTE
This can make the intent behind some arithmetic expressions clearer. Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/types.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index 21b9ce803644..54ae2d59e71b 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
(((bits)+BITS_PER_LONG-1)/BITS_PER_LONG)
#define DECLARE_BITMAP(name,bits) \
unsigned long name[BITS_TO_LONGS(bits)]
+
+#define BITS_PER_BYTE 8
#endif
#include <linux/posix_types.h>