On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:43:49 -0700 Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sigh. What crap. I guess we leave it as-is. > > That matches my conclusion. > > The thought of exposing a bug in some user of this find bit code by > tightening up the API to return == N, not >= N, scares poor little old > me. I can imagine a nasty bug coming from this > > If someone bold enough and strong enough to slay such dragons came > along, I'd gladly cheer them along. But such people are a rare breed, > and probably have bigger dragons to slay first. > We could do this: add a little bitops torture-test and run that unconditionally, nice and early. Something for the young and keen amongst us... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/