From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:05:15 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] Define BITS_PER_BYTE
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc2~126
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f7589f28d7dd4586b4e90ac3b2a180409669053a;p=linux-2.6

[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>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index 21b9ce8036..54ae2d59e7 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>