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Re: [PATCH] wl12xx: use a bitmask instead of list of booleans in scanned_ch

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On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 09:45 +0200, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 09:40 +0200, Eliad Peller wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > We were using an array of booleans to mark the channels we had already scanned.  This was causing a sparse error, because bool is not a type with defined size.  To fix this, use bitmasks instead, which is much cleaner anyway.
> > >
> > > Thanks Johannes Berg for the idea.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Luciano Coelho <coelho@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > [...]
> > > +       /* make sure all our channels fit in the scanned_ch bitmask */
> > > +       BUG_ON(ARRAY_SIZE(wl1271_channels) + ARRAY_SIZE(wl1271_channels_5ghz) >
> > > +              WL1271_MAX_CHANNELS);
> > 
> > maybe use BUILD_BUG_ON here?
> 
> Yeah, I had actually done that at first.  But then the compilation error
> was so cryptic that I decided to add a BUG_ON instead.  But now I
> realize that the BUG_ON is just as cryptic, so I can change it back to
> BUILD_BUG_ON.  In either case, the developer will know soon enough that
> there is a bug. :)
> 
> I'll change it to BUILD_BUG_ON before applying.

Applied.

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.

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