Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

On 2/23/07, Richard Knutsson [off-list ref] wrote:

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Milind Choudhary wrote:

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On 2/23/07, Richard Knutsson [off-list ref] wrote:

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+#define BITWRAP(nr)    (1UL << ((nr) % BITS_PER_LONG))

& make the whole input subsystem use it
The change is huge, more than 125 files using input.h
& almost all use the BIT macro.

It is as a big of change, but have you dismissed the "BIT(nr %
BITS_PER_LONG)" approach?

no..
but just looking at the number of places it is being used,
it seems that adding a new  macro would be good
which makes it look short n sweet

You have a point there but I still don't think it should be in bitops.h.
Why should we favor long-wrap before byte-wrap, so what do you think
about doing:

#define BITWRAP(x)      BIT((x) % BITS_PER_LONG)

in input.h? Otherwise I think it should be call LBITWRAP (or something)
to both show what kind it is and enable us to add others later.

Why would you not want to have what you call bitwrap as a standard
behavior? Most placed to not use modulus because they know the kind of
data they are working with but should still be fine if generic
implementation did that.

Both because I find the name not as expressive as simple "BIT(x % 
something)", but mainly since it only enables wrapping of the long-type. 
But that is just my opinion.
Just to test:

grep -Enr "BIT\(.*\%" *

include/asm-arm/arch-h720x/irqs.h:114:#define IRQ_TO_BIT(irq) (1 << ((irq - NR_GLBL_IRQS) % 32))
include/asm-arm/arch-omap/irqs.h:274:#define OMAP_IRQ_BIT(irq)  (1 << ((irq) % 32))
include/asm-i386/mach-visws/piix4.h:17:#define  GPIBIT(x)               (1 << ((x)%8))
include/linux/netfilter/xt_conntrack.h:11:#define XT_CONNTRACK_STATE_BIT(ctinfo) (1 << ((ctinfo)%IP_CT_IS_REPLY+1))
include/linux/netfilter/xt_state.h:4:#define XT_STATE_BIT(ctinfo) (1 << ((ctinfo)%IP_CT_IS_REPLY+1))
...

So it seems there are some instances who wrap but they don't seem to 
like BITSWAP (well, maybe those "% 32" on an appropriate arch).

So I think that if an subsystem uses something like this much (like 
input.h), then it is up to that subsystem to provide it. When more then 
one sub-system have a need for it, then it should be a common define (as 
BIT is now). But as I said, that is just my opinion.

Richard Knutsson