Re: [PATCH] 10: 2.5.29-wdt977

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 07:16:18PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Bitops are used with on the timer_alive variable.  Therefore, timer_alive
> needs to be "unsigned long" not "int".

How about:
> -static	int timer_alive;
> +static	bitmap_member(timer_alive, 1);

In this way it is obviously used for bitops.

Rusty's more informative DECLARE_BITMAP (IIRC) patch has not yet been 
accepted by Linus, otherwise it would better tell people that this is 
actually a macro without the need to parse the declaration first.

	Sam