[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>
git-mirror · Feb 1, 2006 · f7589f2 · f7589f2
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diff --git 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>